apache2 .html pages not being parsed
 

I have apache built but when I put an index.html it does not recognize it but rather brings the directory structure instead. However if there's a index.php it goes ahead and loads the page like a webpage. Any ideas how to fix this?

you should have a line like:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file. This should be there by default, but check if it is there and uncommented.