Favicon - I'm very frustrated!!!

**pj2012** · 10-23-2007, 01:55 PM

This seems like a simple task but I can't get past the
"verifying" stage...

heres what I have done-

I created the favicon, downloaded it, put it on the server via
FTP , but when I type in my website to verify it I just get
a blank page,

So I decided to continue with the steps ie: putting in the code in the
header etc and of course nothing.

What am I doing wrong? I do my own websites all the time, flash intros,
etc etc, so I am pretty self sufficient in figuring these things out but
this one has me stumped!!!

Thanks -

Pam

**BLiZZaRD** · 10-23-2007, 02:14 PM

Do you have a link, or something so we can see what may be going on?

**djr33** · 10-23-2007, 06:01 PM

Without seeing anything, our only suggestion can be that Internet Explorer can take approx. 72 hours (usually significantly less, but sometimes longer than that) to update the favicon. So... all you can do there is wait, assuming it is setup correctly.

**insanemonkey** · 10-26-2007, 12:34 PM

you need to clear your history or cookies and it will work, i had this problem one time...

make sure..;
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../../../images/favicon.ico">
thats in your head tags.
I add ../ for pages like
/forums/main/reply/blah.php
stuff like that..

**kuau** · 12-23-2007, 02:03 AM

I too am having trouble with the favicon, even though I made one for a few sites a year ago that still work fine using this code in the <head> of index.html.

<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="http://www.mydomain.net/favicon.ico" />

Now I can't get the favicon to show at all unless I put the line in every file, and it shows only in Firefox, not IE7 (I cleared cache & cookies & waited 48 hrs). I thought you just had to put it in the homepage. Does the favicon.ico file have to be in the root, or can I define the path to the image folder where the rest of the image files are? eg. http://www.mydomain.net/img/favicon.ico.

Has something changed about how to do this that I didn't hear about?

Thanks for your help. Aloha, kuau

**djr33** · 12-23-2007, 05:28 AM

As far as I know, it should go in the root, not a subfolder. Having it in a subfolder makes this ambiguous, as you could have any number of subfolders with any number of favicon files, which the browser could only guess at.

I think you might be able to define on a page by page basis any path you'd like, but for a site-wide default, it should go in the route. This also saves you trouble with adding code to every page.

It does then limit you to only one icon (though exceptions may be possible with specifying another path per page), but really that's ok so that your browsers associate a small logo with your site. The purpose of a favicon is more that, like a small logo on your business card, not something that identifies each page, anyway.

**kuau** · 12-23-2007, 06:25 AM

Dear Daniel:

Makes total sense.. thank you for clearing that up... can't tell you how many times I have moved the file around! Do you happen to know which is correct: <link rel="icon" or <link rel="shortcut icon" (see insanemonkey above)? And how do I get it to show up in IE7? If it works in FF, does that mean it will eventually work in IE if I just wait?

Thank you. Merry Christmas! erin

**djr33** · 12-23-2007, 03:39 PM

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

According to the information there, "shortcut icon".

I'm not sure on any of this, but I have heard of troubles with favicons enough to made strong educated guesses. I hope it helps.

As for IE, there is something strange that will simply create a delay in IE accepting the new favicon. I have heard this can be around 72 hours, though it varies.
Dumping your cache might try to flush this, but that won't guarantee anything.
Wait a few days and see. If that doesn't fix it, then something may be wrong with the configuration.

**Jerome** · 12-23-2007, 04:20 PM

I to have had my icon work on FF & NS for a long time but not IE and one day it hit my like a brick. Find an icon converter for free using google because although I had the right extension and code, my properties wwere not correct. I just did a search for you and although I did not use this converter I feel it will work for you.

Good Luck in the lions den!

http://www.flavicon.com/converter

The rest of you guys should have known better ;-)

**djr33** · 12-23-2007, 04:33 PM

The rest of you guys should have known better ;-)

What? And what's wrong with the converter here on DD? It certainly generates a valid icon. The rest is just implementing it correctly, which, if wrong, would be wrong the same way if you used another generator.

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