Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

Name

AddIconByType

Synopsis

AddIconByType icon mime_type1 mime_type2 ...
Server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess

AddIconByType takes an icon URL as an argument, followed by a list of MIME types. Apache looks for the type entry in mime.types, either with or without a wildcard. We have the following MIME types:

...
text/html html htm
text/plain text
text/richtext rtx
text/tab-separated-values tsv
text/x-setext text
...

So, we could have one icon for all text files by including the line:

AddIconByType (TXT,icons/bomb.gif) text/*

Or we could be more specific, using four icons, a.gif, b.gif, c.gif, and d.gif :

AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/a.gif) text/html
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/b.gif) text/plain
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/c.gif) text/tab-separated-values
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/d.gif) text/x-setext

Let’s try out the simpler case:

<Directory /usr/www/APACHE3/fancyindex.txt/htdocs>
FancyIndexing on
AddDescription "One of our wonderful catalogs" catalog_autumn.html 
    catalog_summer.html
IndexIgnore *.jpg
IndexIgnore ..
AddIconByType (CAT,icons/bomb.gif)  text/*
AddIcon (DIR,icons/burst.gif) ^^DIRECTORY^^
</Directory>

For a further refinement, we can use AddIconByEncoding to give a special icon to encoded files.