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As you set up your site you will need to decide where to put different files and how to organize your directories. There are a couple directory names you should not use. Apache is the server level program responsible for displaying web pages. Within the configuration file for Apache there are a couple of aliases that it uses for directories, these are manual and icons.

Because of this you should not use these name for any directories. If you have a file called file.html in a directory called manual and you type in http:://www.domain.com/manual/file.html, then Apache will look in its own directory for file.html, and since there is no page with that name a 404 Page Not Found error will show up. The same is true for any document type in the icons directory.

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