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Chapter 14. Apache HTTP Server

14.5.49.

AddIcon

AddIcon

tells the server which icon to show in server generated directory listings for certain file types

or for files with certain extensions. For example, your Web server is set to show the icon

binary.gif

for files with

.bin

or

.exe

extensions.

14.5.50.

DefaultIcon

DefaultIcon

names the icon to show in server generated directory listings for files which have no

other icon specified. The

unknown.gif

image file is the

DefaultIcon

for those files by default.

14.5.51.

AddDescription

You can use

AddDescription

to show text that you specify for certain files, in server generated

directory listings (you will also need to enable

FancyIndexing

as an

IndexOptions

). You can

name specific files, wildcard expressions or file extensions to specify the files which this directive

should apply to. For example, you could use the following line:

AddDescription "A file that ends in .ni" .ni

In server generated directory listings, all files with extensions of

.ni

would have the description

A

file that ends in .ni

after the filename. Note that you will also need

FancyIndexing

turned

on.

14.5.52.

ReadmeName

ReadmeName

names the file which (if it exists in the directory) will be appended to the end of server

generated directory listings. The Web server will first try to include the file as an HTML document

and then try to include it as plain text. By default,

ReadmeName

is set to

README

.

14.5.53.

HeaderName

HeaderName

names the file which (if it exists in the directory) will be prepended to the start of server

generated directory listings. Like

ReadmeName

, the server will try to include it as an HTML document

if possible, or in plain text if not.

14.5.54.

IndexIgnore

IndexIgnore

lists file extensions, partial filenames, wildcard expressions or full filenames. The Web

server will not include any files which match any of those parameters in server generated directory

listings.

14.5.55.

AddEncoding

AddEncoding

names filename extensions which should specify a particular encoding type.

AddEn 

coding

can also be used to instruct some browsers (not all) to uncompress certain files as they are

downloaded.