Answers.Body: <p>I called my directory "icons" (www.example.com/icons/) which was obviously not a good idea. After renaming the directory to "img/icons" it works perfect!</p>
  
Answers.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Answers.CreationDate: 2015-07-27T17:57:56.073Z
Answers.Text: FWIW, `icons` isn't reserved by Craft, but a lot of Apache configurations have something like this set in their default `httpd.conf` file, which is probably what you were running into: `Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/` See here for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4433631/apache-how-to-override-index-of-icons
Answers.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
Answers.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 3.0
Answers.CreationDate: 2015-07-27T11:28:28.353Z
Answers.LastActivityDate: 2015-07-27T11:28:28.353Z
Answers.UserDisplayName: MISC
Body: <p>My pictures were not showing - even if everything looked great (files were available at the right place, template code was correct, ...). My first reaction was to check the htaccess file, but (see my answer below).</p>
  
Tags: <assets>
Title: Pictures (Assets) not showing (error 404)
ThreadText: # Pictures (Assets) not showing (error 404)
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-27)
  
  My pictures were not showing - even if everything looked great (files were available at the right place, template code was correct, ...). My first reaction was to check the htaccess file, but (see my answer below).
  
  **Tags:** assets
  
  
  ---
  
  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-07-27. Score: 2
  
  I called my directory "icons" (www.example.com/icons/) which was obviously not a good idea. After renaming the directory to "img/icons" it works perfect!
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: FWIW, `icons` isn't reserved by Craft, but a lot of Apache configurations have something like this set in their default `httpd.conf` file, which is probably what you were running into: `Alias /icons/ /usr/local/apache/icons/` See here for more info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4433631/apache-how-to-override-index-of-icons  
  
  ---
  
  