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I have a folder called icons and the icons are never found, why ?


You cannot use the name "icons" for a folder in your site design, because "icons" is a name reserved by the web server software. It is the name of the system folder containing all the icons used to generate indexes of folders without an index.html file (or other allowed file names). The unique system folder called icons is the only one allowed by the web server, as it is accessed within every web site, by a "redirection" (alias) and any duplicates will never be looked up. Therefore, if you wish to have folders containing icons in your site, an other name must be used for the icons folder. The name needs not to be very different, since UNIX is case sensitive, naming the folder "Icons" will do just fine, as "icons" and "Icons" are 2 different names, because of the "I" which is different from the "i".

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