favicon.ico

[Dzinerbear]

Hey all,

I see in our logs that we're getting a lot of errors (404 Not Found) for /favicon.ico.

First, this is the logo to appears in the address bar beside your URL?

We don't have one, so I'm assuming this is why we're getting all of these 404's?

Thanks
Dzinerbear

[jIgG]

yes indeedy. the browser looks for a favicon.ico first before defaulting when it cant find one

[Dzinerbear]

Thanks jIig, you're fast.

Okay, so does it create extra load / problems on our server if we don't have one? Would it make things more smooth if we had one?

Thanks
Dzinerbear

[jIgG]

you can make one if you have a custom 404 page, which I think loads every time the browser looks for favicon.ico and doesn't find it.
No idea whether or not the browser actually loads the 404 in the background or not

[Dzinerbear]

It must be loading it in the background, or not at all really, because I'm not seeing anything happening when I visit the site.

Thanks
Dzinerbear

[Lee]

Michael,

You dont need to have a htaccess 404 page in place to utilize the favicon file.

Here is an article with a bit more info in it for you..

http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/...&threadid=2041

Regards,

Lee

[gaystoryman]

here is a handy FAVICON GENERATOR PROGRAM that will quickly do one up for you. Simple to just have it in your root directory.

hth
Ian

[robin]

Dzinerbear,

Whip up a favicon with that generator that Gaystoryman suggested or grab a favicon editor -- they're only about 16x16 px; very low in byte size. Oh and read Lee's article it has the snippet of code for making sure that the favicon shows up.