Silky Directory Indexes

I really like the Silk Icons at famfamfam, alot more than the default FancyIndex icons used by Apache2 in fact.
So, now seems like a good time to patch those icons into my directory indexes for FancyIndexing.

First I get the zipfile fill of icons, which is actually a zipfile that has two readme files & a directory called icons in it.

Next I navigate to the directory Apache is already using for icons

Alias /icons/ "/usr/share/apache2/icons/"

In my case it's /usr/share/... look for "Alias /icons" in your *.conf file for Apache to find out where it is for you.

Now, I extract the icons folder from the zipfile into Apaches' icons directory & rename the extracted directory to "silk" so that I have the following.

/usr/share/apache2/icons/silk/

Now to change the icons in the Virtual Host container for the site in question, *.htaccess files could also be used to use different icons per-directory.
I'll start with the ones that have listings already, making the following changes to the AddIcon lines.

    AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/silk/page_white_zip.png) x-compress x-gzip

    AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/silk/page_white_text.png) text/*
    AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/silk/picture.png) image/*
    AddIconByType (SND,/icons/silk/sound.png) audio/*
    AddIconByType (VID,/icons/silk/film.png) video/*

    AddIcon /icons/silk/application_double.png .exe
    AddIcon /icons/silk/application_xp_terminal.png .bin
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_zip.png .Z .z .tgz .gz .zip
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_code.png .shtml
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_acrobat.png .pdf
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_zip.png .txt
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_c.png .c
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_cplusplus.png .cpp
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_dvd.png .dvi
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_gear.png .ini .conf .sh .shar .csh .ksh .tcl
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_actionscript.png .as
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_flash.png .fla .swf
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_freehand.png .fh3 .fh4 .fh5 .fh7 .ft7 .fh8 .ft8 .fh9 .ft9 .fh10 .ft10 .fhx
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_h.png .h
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_php.png .php .php3 .php4 .php5
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_office.png .docx .docm .dotx .dotm
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_powerpoint.png .pptx .pptm .potx .potm .ppam .ppsx .ppsm
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_excel.png .xlsx .xlsm .xltx .xltm .xlsb .xlam
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_ruby.png .rb
    AddIcon /icons/silk/page_white_word.png .doc
    AddIcon /icons/silk/css.png .css
    AddIcon /icons/silk/html.png .html .htm
    AddIcon /icons/silk/xhtml.png .xhtml
    AddIcon /icons/silk/script_code.png .js
    AddIcon /icons/silk/database_table.png .sql
    AddIcon /icons/silk/script_gear.png .inc .pl .py
    AddIcon /icons/silk/help.png .chm
    AddIcon /icons/silk/music.png .wav .mp3 .ogg

    AddIcon /icons/silk/folder_delete.png ..
    AddIcon /icons/silk/asterisk_yellow.png README
    AddIcon /icons/silk/folder_add.png ^^DIRECTORY^^
    AddIcon /icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^


    DefaultIcon /icons/silk/page_white.png

Followed by a restart of Apache for good measure.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

I now have silky icons on my directory indexes, but apparently it's going to need a little tweeking to tell the difference between "text/text", "text/html", & "text/css" somewhere.