all, I was just trying to configure some autoindex stuff while I found this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/mod/mod_autoindex.html#adddescription Description: Description to display for a file
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/en/mod/mod_autoindex.html#addicon Description: Icon to display for a file selected by name since both directives do basically the same - that is assign an attribute to a filename/extension I think both should also sound same, so I think for AddDescription the text should also be: Description: Description to display for a file selected by name then for both directives the file/name paramter is explained closely identical as: AddDescription Directive File is a file extension, partial filename, wild-card expression or full filename for files to describe. AddIcon Directive Name is either ^^DIRECTORY^^ for directories, ^^BLANKICON^^ for blank lines (to format the list correctly), a file extension, a wildcard expression, a partial filename or a complete filename. So from this description I would expect that both directives would act the same if I give a file extension as argument, f.e. for: AddDescription "SHA checksum" .sha AddIcon /icons/quill.gif .sha I would either expect files *.sha*, or if it would be strict then only *.sha to match; but it seems that: AddDescription -> matches *.sha* AddIcon -> matches *.sha here's the resulting sample (htaccess.txt is a symlink to .htaccess): http://people.apache.org/~fuankg/testautoindex/ shouldnt both direcives behave equal? Gün.