So recently I bought a domain and set it up with Wordpress. I then uninstalled WordPress because I just wanted a static landing page. However, for some reason there seems to be this favicon that I didn't add.
So I delete all my files on the site and it's still there!
I don't know how to remove it.
Here is a screenshot of the favicon:
Browser's caching it. You can set one like this:
<link rel="icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico" />
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I have two websites hosted on AEM or cq5 with two diffrent domains. The new domain also displays the same favicon. I'm trying to delete that in head.jsp of template. But it still displays.
Even though I delete in both the templates it doesn't delete. I cleared the cache too. Is there a way to delete it?
Seems this isn't the first time I've had to do this. So posting for the next time either of us look ;)
As a work-around
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="#" />
solves the 404 error
You can create Blank Favicon.That will override the default favicon.
I had similar problem basically you need to:
Delete the root/server favicon check if it exists, this is usually
automatically picked for all your site/s
Explicitly point a specific favicon for all sites as below:
link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico"
This should fix it after clearing you cache/browser.
Sample my server has multiple test webapps with different favicon:
http://tomcat-alkathirikhalid.rhcloud.com/itrainexam/
Cheers
In my index.php file I have:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicon-16x16.png" sizes="16x16" />
And in assets/images I have the two files ("favicon-16x16.png" and "favicon-32x32.png"). What am I doing wrong?
Also, when I go to specific pages on my websites and refresh I see the favicon. But it doesn't show on the root page and it only only show on some other pages if I refresh.
Another thing I noticed is that this problem didn't happen when my index.php file was called index.html. However I have to name the file index.php because I'm hosting through Heroku.
The favicon rel should be defined as rel="shortcut icon"like this:
And also make sure the path file is correct for every page. If your root file is in the same directory i.e. inside your assets folder, then the above updated code should work but if your index is outside your assets folder, then you need to change your favicon path file to something like href="assets/images/favicon-32x32.png"
Not sure of what is causing this issue, but here is a checklist:
Use absolute paths, eg. /images/favicon-32x32.png, instead of relative paths, eg. images/favicon-32x32.png. Else you might have issues due to pages in different directories.
Makes sure your links are valid. For example, if your HTML code contains <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/images/favicon-16x16.png" sizes="16x16"> and your web site is http://example.com, then type http://example.com/images/favicon-16x16.png in the address bar of your browser: does it displays the icon?
Browsers are very tough regarding favicon caching. If the favicon is not configured correctly, you browser might display it anyway because it cached it during a (successful) previous attempt. Even if the favicon is configured correctly, your browser might not display it, at least immediately, because of failed previous attempts. As a workaround, you can add a kind of version to your URL. For example, <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/images/favicon-16x16.png?v=2" sizes="16x16"> and change it whenever you try something else. That will force your browser to consider the picture no matter what it encountered previously.
Because of this same caching issue, you might want to try with another browser, just to make sure your cache is not messing up.
While debugging your favicon, display either your browser's network logs (Firebug with Firefox, Dev tools with Chrome...) and/or your server's logs (eg. access.log with Apache) to understand what's going on. Again, this might reveal the dreadful caching issue: you try many things but your browser won't reload anything.
Browsers can have different behavior in local environments regarding favicon. Are you accessing your files directly, ie. from the file system? If so I suggest you to switch to a web server environment.
I don't want favicon for my website. Unfortunately my web hosting service imposes one. All my pages shows a favicon with the name of my hosting service.
How can I get rid of the (commmercial) favicon?
I could set a customised favicon but it is a personal website and I don't know what (very little) image could reflect me... And even if I found an idea, I don't have the time or skills to create a beautiful image.
I thought putting the html code without actually sending a image : (favicon.png does not exist)
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="img/favicon.png" />
But it's not working (it doesn't block the default favicon).
I could put a white image to override the commercial favicon but the rendering isn't beautiful (white empty favicon on gray browser...)
Here! I made you a favicon :) Use it to your heart's content (if you like it).
I've been banging my head against the wall for hours now trying to get this favicon to work. My site is hosted on Bluehost and I uploaded a favicon.ico file to the public_html folder. It always just shows the default Bluehost logo in both Safari and Chrome. I included the following in the header after all the meta tags:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
Have tried icon sizes 16x16 and 32x32, always named favicon.ico, and also tried putting href="http://www.mydomainname.com/favicon.ico" in the tag. I am always clearing the cache before trying to load the site.
If I inspect the page source in Chrome, I see the link for the favicon, and the page source page in Chrome shows the favicon correctly. When I click on the favicon link then try to load the site, the favicon I want flashes briefly before going back to the default Bluehost one.
In case it matters, I just migrated the site from Wordpress and deleted all the "wp" files, but maybe something is left that's screwing it up. Anyone have any other ideas?
I'm not sure if that gets cleared from the cache when you clear the browser cache but what you can try is adding a cache-buster to the path. ex: favicon.ico?ver=20130212
I placed my favicon here:
http://www.vittoriosastarsnursery.com/favicon.ico
But for some reason it doesn't want to show in Firefox. It did work in IE, but I'm more concerned about getting it working in Firefox.
Suddenly I found answer here
You should add "?" to your favicon path and it works! Even with path such as images/favicon.ico. Just try:
<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.ico?" type="image/x-icon">
Other browsers works too.
Remember to restart mozilla, because of it's own cache, that is not connected with css and other caching.
updated:
Another way is set redirect from favicon.ico to /images/favicon.ico (301 works)
I can see it in Chrome, Firefox, and IE. My friend had a problem like this when we were testing back in college. It was just a weird caching thing that made her think it wasn't working right. I'm sure that everyone besides you will be able to see that it works fine.
Try opening the Dev Tools (CMD + Option + i on Mac) and hard refresh the page (hold the refresh button until options appear).
You could always try restarting your browser after clearing the cache and see if that helps.
<link rel="icon" href="http://khachmeruk.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://khachmeruk.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
Two things to consider
If it's working in some browsers and not in others it's likely going to be a cache issue. Clear your cache and refresh, or for more in depth info: How do I force a favicon refresh
If favicon.ico is in the project's root folder but not being recognized by any browsers I would check out the .htaccess, or whatever equivalent of .htaccess depending on server type etc.
For those who suffer from this problem, try move your favicon file to home directory. It worked for me and solved my problem.
https://github.com/ritwickdey/vscode-live-server/issues/77
I was facing this problem with VS-Code live server, as discussed above it's browser cache issue, there is popular github thread on this.
just try the trick:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico?v=2" type="image/x-icon"/>
Happy learning
If you don't want to spend hours. trying to figure out why your favicon is not showing up, make sure to always place it in the root of your project folder and add a link in the <head></head> section of your page like so:
<head>
//other code
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
//other code
</head>
Folder Structure
--app
-----img
-----js
-----css
-----favicon.ico
It is just a caching issue. Just change the file name and it will show up immediately... otherwise do nothing and it will show up eventually. Browsers are just very persistent with the favicon caching.
It works for me in FireFox. When running identify (part of the ImageMagick package), it reports this problem:
identify: invalid colormap index 'favicon.ico' # error/image.c/SyncImage/3906
Perhaps opening the file in a graphics editor and re-saving it would clean up this error.
I had this problem too. it turns out (for me at least) that blocking users / agents with no referrer via .htaccess caused the problem.
Something that hasn't been mentioned that seems to have been the cause of my issue was the image file size. The image I was using was 4254px X 3850px at 1.3MB. It worked fine in Chrome desktop but not on Chrome mobile or Firefox. Changing the dimensions to 120px X 120px reduced the file size to 9.1KB and the favicon now works well.
P.s. This only works if your code has no issues.
For those who have tried everything and the favicon still does not show up:
Put it in your sites Root Directory
Rename it "favicon.ico"
Make sure your code is like such:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico"/>
IF you still have the same problem, put the whole website in ANOTHER DIRECTORY, like a Memory Stick (that fixed it for me :) ).
REMEMBER: You HAVE to put the icon code in the of EVERY page. :)