Posted by Gunny on January 28, 2005 at 4:04am
404 error: favicon.ico not found
On which module file is favicon.ico mentioned ? i want to remove the same
404 error: favicon.ico not found
On which module file is favicon.ico mentioned ? i want to remove the same
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No module
Some browsers check for favicons automatically. The only way to get rid of the 404 is to install your own icon. I suggest you google for more info regarding favicons, there is tons of info about them around.
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Its vital to have a favicon
Its vital to have a favicon these days. Almost every site I browse has a favicon and it makes it easy to be found if the site is bookmarked. Read more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon.
If you are familiar with photoshop use this excellent extension available here http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ . THere are more guides on google so I suggest you google it. And you definitly need a favicon.
Making a favicon
If you already have Photoshop, I'm sure it's an excellent tool, but not everyone does (it's too expensive for me).
When I first made a favicon, I hunted for ages and tried out various tools decicated to making favicons, most of which turned out to be fairly irritating.
These days, I just make a 16*16px image in The Gimp, and save it as a bitmap (Gimp can't save as favicon, unless I've missed something).
Then I open it up in Irfanview, and save as .ICO
All free software.
Doh! I didn't know Irfanview did that, thanks!
That's a great tip. When I made mine, I shrunk a drawing I made in The Gimp to use as a buddy icon/forum avatar down to 16x16 pixels and another at 64x64 pixels, then used png2ico to build favicon.ico. This may be of interest to others because Irfanview only runs on Windows. I would have used Irfanview, though, if I knew it did that ;)
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Yes, what about doing it online for free ?
You can transform any image into a .ico here for example :
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
or you can draw it online and have it sent to your e-mail :
http://www.favicon.co.uk
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With my first site I used...
the free trial of a tool called IconForge. It was very easy to use, but I don't feel like paying for it :)
Maybe if I start setting up new sites all the time and raking in the cash I'll cough up the shareware money. Of course I'll donate to Drupal first since a whole free customizable site is worth a hell of a lot more than a stupid little icon. I'll surely check out this chami kit though, thanks alliax. I have several Drupal sites now that lack favicons :)
On the issue of the importance of having a functioning favicon:
It's just another of the many tiny ways you can distinguish your site from the amateurs. But really, is the presence of a favicon for your site going to be a factor in someone's decision to hire or bookmark you? I have hundreds of bookmarks and I need other software to manage them, so I have no use for favicons.
Actually, you can
Actually, you can distinguish yourself by having both a favico and the new "favico" for others browsers like Firefox, those new favico are not limited in size, they will shrink to the common size, and those favico can be animated (mng or gif) see the icon for this site :
http://www.annuaire-depannage-informatique.com
That's a drupal site of course :-)
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Gimp saves *.ico
At least in Gimp 2.2+ you can save images as *.ico.
The only thing I've had trouble with is that sometimes Internet Explorer doesn't recognise it properly.
When I was trying yesterday IE seemed to manage my new favicon.ico without any trouble.
If you really don't want one...
If you just want to get rid of the 404 error from your drupal logs without providing an icon, you can add the following to your apache config:
Redirect 404 /favicon.ico
(assuming that you can edit your global apache config, and that your Drupal site is installed in the root directory).
To do it in .htaccess is more difficult: you need to add a RewriteCond to the clean URL rewriter to exclude favicon.ico, and you need to remap the ErrorDocument to not redirect to Drupal for that path; probably more trouble than it's worth.
I use the former technique in my global Apache config to throw away Windows exploits and such, though (dropping paths like _vti_bin)..
As you mention, I suspect
As you mention, I suspect that making a favicon would just be simpler.
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A simply way to get rid of favicon.ico errors
If your not felling very artistic there's a simply way to get rid of the favicon.ico problem. On any GNU/Linux platform, go to the root of you website and do the following command;
touch favicon.ico
If there is no file called favicon.ico it'll create a zero size file with that name. The server can serve the file and the client's browser should fall back on a default.
another way to generate favicons (that works in linux)
it was mentioned that you can make a 16x16 px image in gimp, and convert it. another way to do this is withs a handy little tool called png2ico. as the name might suggest, you need to save your image as a png.
KIconEdit in linux
I use KIconEdit in my debian linux setup
http://freshmeat.net/projects/kiconedit/
if you'd like to try linux i'd recommend
http://mepis.org
(is that drupal that's running the mepis site?... awww)
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