Name

AddDescription

Synopsis

AddDescription string file1 file2 ...
Server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess

AddDescription expects a description string in double quotes, followed by a file extension, partial filename, wildcards, or full filename:

<Directory /usr/www/APACHE3/fancyindex.txt/htdocs>
FancyIndexing on
AddDescription "One of our wonderful catalogs" catalog_autumn.html 
    catalog_summer.html
IndexIgnore *.jpg
IndexIgnore ..
AddIcon (CAT,icons/bomb.gif)  .html
AddIcon (DIR,icons/burst.gif) ^^DIRECTORY^^
AddIcon icons/blank.gif ^^BLANKICON^^
DefaultIcon icons/blank.gif
</Directory>

Having achieved these wonders, we might now want to be a bit more sensible and choose our icons by MIME type using the AddIconByType directive.