Are you using Apache?  If so, mod_autoindex can give you automatically generated file listings (HTML pages) of directories the server is configured to access — in case no other explicit index (index.html) is found for the respective directory. Files will typically appear as clickable links, but you can flexibly configure the appearance in many ways (file sorting, with icons, descriptions, etc.).

To get you started, here's a sample configuration snippet (incomplete) for your httpd.conf: 

LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so

Alias /chat /path/to/directory/chat
# ...so you can access the chat directory via http://servername/chat

<Directory /path/to/directory/chat>
     Options +Indexes
     IndexOptions FancyIndexing
     # ...
</Directory>

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