Link to folder (localhost server)

[richardpd]

<a href="/GetSimple/RPD_Programming/">Open RPD_Programming folder</a></p>

Hi
Thanks again for your help.
I wonderesd if it was a problem linking to folders outside var/www.
I haven't quite got this working right yet.
Hopefully there is a way for me to get this working somehow?!

Here is the terminal output:
>>>
richard@Chris-PC:/var/www/GetSimple/RPD_Programming$ ln -s /home/richard/RPD_Programming /var/www/GetSimple/RPD_Programming
ln: creating symbolic link `/var/www/GetSimple/RPD_Programming/RPD_Programming': File exists
richard@Chris-PC:/var/www/GetSimple/RPD_Programming$
<<<
On clicking the 'OpenRPD_Programming' link I get:
Index of /GetSimple/RPD_Programming
[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description
[DIR] Parent Directory -
but this should list all the other files/folders/directories found in richard/RPD_Programming & as you see it doesn't (nothing is listed).

I use localhost as a testbed for all kinds of website uses (design/creation/testing etc etc).
I am relatively new to Ubuntu (& not familiar with Linux! I have mainly used localhost server on another Vista computer. All this linux stuff is quite new to me as is GetSimple! It is good to learn new practices & to learn Ubuntu/Linux programming).

I'm very grateful for any more help and advice you can offer-thanks very much