>Put it in my root directory
the root directory of the web servers' documents, so NOT C:\ of the web server, but like D:\www\ for example...
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favicon just not working
Created an icon from one of these favicon sites which seems fine.
Put it in my root directory
Point to it with the LINK REL SHORTCUT ICON tag
No joy in firefox or IE
What am i doing wrong? I've been through all the favicon sites but i'm running out of options
Help!
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There are two ways to get a favicon into a page. The easiest is to put the file into the domain root and call it favicon.ico.
Example: http://www.donedeal.ie/fav
Both FireFox and IE will actually display the icon if you type in the URL. If you do not see the icon when typing in the URL, then your file is probably broken and does not contain a valid icon.
Note that the file must be at the very top of the URL, you cannot put the file into a folder. For example, http://www.donedeal.ie/don
Try uploading your icon to your domain, and if it still does not work, please send me the URL and I will have a look at what may be going wrong.
Also, if you do not have access to the root of your domain (for example, you only have access to a certain directory like www.somesite.com/type25/),
Fred
www.servicemastersams.com is where it's not working.
Doesn't work locally either.
this works: http://www.servicemastersa
this works: http://217.199.181.81/
this does not work: this works: http://www.servicemastersa
now, I could not locate the code where the favicon is linked in any of your pages?
as ingwa posted:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico">
or this:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://217.199.181.8
is required in the <HEAD> section of your pages
For what it's worth i put:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://217.199.181.8
on the Login.aspx page and it still doesn't work :(
>It doesn't use frames!
well, it does, although only a single one:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META NAME="description" content="">
<META NAME="keywords" content="">
<TITLE>samsweb</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*" BORDER="0" FRAMEBORDER="0">
<FRAME SRC="http://217.199.181.81
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES>
samsweb
<P>
<DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://217.199.181.8
</NOFRAMES>
</HTML>
>I'm confused, where did you find the frame page?????
I opened the page:
http://servicemastersams.c
and looked at the page source of that.
In IIS, go to the website properties, click HTTP Headers and then File Types. Add a type with extension ico and type image/x-icon.
If you have LiveHTTPHeader extension installed in FireFox you can see the mime type that the server is reporting back for your file. Once you have added the type your file should be reported as image/x-icon, and the browser will then pick it up.
Fred
Ah, oneandone.co.uk do a forward to their own frameset thing and you can set the page title on your own admin page from their website, i was wondering why i couldn't find that!
Thanks for that.
Still can't get the icon working.
http://217.199.181.81/ forwards to our default website which is my application
http://217.199.181.81/ shows the favicon just fine
Hi,
http://217.199.181.81/ is working and contains the icon. I tested both using IE and firefox.
If you are working with multiple sites here, I would highly recommend you edit each "homepage" to contain it. If it's a frame set, put the icon call in the frameset mapping page. For example, I saw above that you have a frameset page, the icon needs to go into that page. Alternatively, as you are running IIS, I believe theres a feature to parse out headers for every page that is served. You may want to put it in there, and then every page in your site would have the icon code in it.
If it works for some browsers and not for others, that means those browsers don't yet support icons. You will need to upgrade your browser if they now support them, otherwise you won't be able to use them on those browsers.
That's strange, in IE7 the icon doesn't appear if i navigate to this: http://217.199.181.81/
Does in firefox though.
The problem is, it's oneandone.co.uk which contains the frameset (which i don't have access too)
I think i could probably do this by just doing a standard forward (without frameset's involved) and then create my own frameset on my site, that would probably work.
A lot of effort for a blimin icon.
As you are using a frameset you must do one of the following two things:
1. Put the favicon.ico file in the root on the root of servicemastersams.com (82.165.84.201).
2. Or you must modify the frameset page on 82.165.84.201 to include the "link rel" tag.
Note that you MUST do the updates to the 82.165.84.201 server, as that is the top level page that the browser loads. If you cannot do updates to that server, the only thing I can recommend is that you publish a page that automatically redirects the browser to http://217.199.181.81/Logi
hi Pinaldave, I would be interested in the disposition of this question. I believe the bits of code I have provided should help the questioner as they are standard. Additionally I think that it's possible the questioners browser may be blocking or incorrectly handling the icons, or it's a block from the hosting side of things. Addtionally angelIII has provided some useful debugging information to assist. We haven't heard back from the questioner, so I am only assuming that they have the situation resolved.
they do not.
Load
http://www.servicemastersa
and then
http://www.servicemastersa
in FF
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by: ingwaPosted on 2007-01-05 at 02:10:45ID: 18250167
A fav icon is done by:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico">
If it's not working, have the browsers actually been able to find the ico file?