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apache icons in /icons folder??

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:46 pm
by potato
Hey devnetworkers,

i have a problem with a account on our server where i have some images in /icons that not belong to that account.
Looks like it are apache icons.
The owner of that account wants me that i change this...

Somebody knows how i can disable this?

greetings,
tom

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:10 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Just move them out of that directory.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:49 pm
by potato
and why are they there in the first place?
If i delete them, doesn't this gonna have problems afterwards?

i found something about Alias on the apache site, but dont understand it very well.
Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/ then the url /icons will not be aliased.
what does that mean?

Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:41 am
by RobertGonzalez
The icons are typically the standard icons associated with the Apache manual and the Apache generic start page. Removing them shouldn't cause a problem, but if you are reserved about doing that, why not make a temp directory and move the entire /icons directory into the temp, then comment out the line in httpd.conf that aliases the /icons folder. Restart apache and see what, if anything, happens (though I tend to think that nothing will happen).