What would cause Apache to display a bomb icon for a specific directory?

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A user of mine came to me with a question today that has me stumped: Why do .musecore files on our web server show a bomb icon () instead of a folder icon?

More generally, how does Apache decide what icon to display, and where can I inspect and/or change that configuration?

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_autoindex.html#addicon (+1 for the title) — Lekensteyn, Nov 27 '13 at 17:39
And obviously, "this page" is fixed now. Yay serverfault! I've adjusted the link to go to archive.org. — jldugger, Nov 27 '13 at 17:54

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 27 '13 at 18:40

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By default, the bomb icon is displayed for core dumps, and the default configuration assumes that any filename or directory name matching a regex like ^*core$ must be a core dump.

This option is controlled by the AddIcon directive of mod_autoindex which is also visible in the default extra/httpd-autoindex.conf file:

AddIcon /icons/bomb.gif core

edited Nov 27 '13 at 18:40

Lekensteyn

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answered Nov 27 '13 at 17:39

Corbin

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Source: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf.in – Lekensteyn Nov 27 '13 at 17:40
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I made a file applecore as a test, and put some text in it, and it showed up as a bomb. – jldugger Nov 27 '13 at 17:43
That's indeed a strange default! Thank for the hint! – dokaspar Sep 20 '16 at 05:19

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '14 at 18:32

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If for some reason you have named your directory 'core' the bomb image will be displayed. If it not a core dump, simply change the directory name to something else and the bomb image will be replaced with the usual folder image.

answered Aug 19 '14 at 18:32

markogrady

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This isn't really a new/unique answer from the one that was already posted and accepted nearly a year ago... Consider posting comments like this as actual comments (once you have enough rep that you're allowed to). Just FYI – JimNim Aug 19 '14 at 19:53

What would cause Apache to display a bomb icon for a specific directory?

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