Title: Does WordPress use the Apache /icons/ folder?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Does WordPress use the Apache /icons/ folder?

 *  Resolved [structure5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/structure5/)
 * (@structure5)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-apache-icons-folder/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am setting up a new wordpress site on a new host and still have the default
   WordPress pages setup. I have not customized anything. I installed WordPress 
   myself after configuring MySQL, etc.
 * Does WordPress attempt to use the /icons/ folder off of the root directory? If
   so, for what reason?
 * The reason I ask…
 * I noticed that Google spiders, among a few others, are accessing `*domain*/icons/
   folders.gif`. I realized that Fancy Indexes were enabled by default and assumed
   that Google guessed at a fairly common directory off of root to grab files from.(
   I went ahead and fixed that nonsense already)
 * However, I decided it would be good to ask my host about it… seeing as `icons/`
   was not even accessible via my FTP account, so I could not simply delete it. 
   They came up with this explanation:
 * “I have checked the transfer logs for your domain name and found that WordPress
   is configured to use the `icons/folder.gif` file. In this case all I can suggest
   to you is to contact the WordPress developers and ask them for assistance.”
 * While I really don’t believe this, I want to confirm just in case this is true
   and I need to actually modify WordPress.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-apache-icons-folder/#post-1465723)
 * complete and utter crap unless you configured it somehow
 *  Thread Starter [structure5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/structure5/)
 * (@structure5)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-apache-icons-folder/#post-1465846)
 * Fantastic. Thanks!
 * Going to go ream them out. I found some other interesting details that they’ll
   need to explain also.

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 * Last reply from: [structure5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/structure5/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-use-the-apache-icons-folder/#post-1465846)
 * Status: resolved

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