Logo in address bar

DKLA · 26-Sep-2007, 08:26 PM #1

How do companies get their log in the address bar?

Ex look at Tech Support Guy's address in the top bar. They have the

[logo] http://www.techguy.com

namenotfound · 26-Sep-2007, 08:52 PM #2

It's called a Favicon.

On *most* servers, you can just upload a file called favicon.ico to the root directory, and that's all you have to do.

On other servers, which I like to call "crappy servers", you have to add this between <head> and </head>

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

Squashman · 26-Sep-2007, 11:31 PM #3

Quote:

Originally Posted by namenotfound

It's called a Favicon.

On *most* servers, you can just upload a file called favicon.ico to the root directory, and that's all you have to do.

On other servers, which I like to call "crappy servers", you have to add this between <head> and </head>

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

I guess I would like to know how to configure Apache or IIS for my users to load the Favicon without them doing any HTML. I have never heard of doing it any other way beside html.

namenotfound · 27-Sep-2007, 07:41 AM #4

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squashman

I guess I would like to know how to configure Apache or IIS for my users to load the Favicon without them doing any HTML. I have never heard of doing it any other way beside html.

Ask my host, I PMed you who they are.

Fred333 · 27-Sep-2007, 09:26 AM #5

I have always done it through html. I didn't know you could do it using Apache?

DKLA · 27-Sep-2007, 02:05 PM #6

Thanks guys! Your awesome =)

tomdkat · 27-Sep-2007, 03:14 PM #7

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squashman

I guess I would like to know how to configure Apache or IIS for my users to load the Favicon without them doing any HTML. I have never heard of doing it any other way beside html.

Didn't he already post one option above:

Quote:

Originally Posted by namenotfound

It's called a Favicon.

On *most* servers, you can just upload a file called favicon.ico to the root directory, and that's all you have to do.

On other servers, which I like to call "crappy servers", you have to add this between <head> and </head>

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

On the server I admin with Apache as the web server, I often see hits on "www.website.com/favicon.ico" in the various website logs and Apache returns 404 codes since that file usually doesn't exist. If someone uploaded a "favicon.ico" to the root directory of their website (their "DocumentRoot" in Apache parlance), then Apache would serve up the file, no HTML coding required.

Peace...

ivenms · 27-Sep-2007, 03:53 PM #8

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdkat

Didn't he already post one option above:

On the server I admin with Apache as the web server, I often see hits on "www.website.com/favicon.ico" in the various website logs and Apache returns 404 codes since that file usually doesn't exist. If someone uploaded a "favicon.ico" to the root directory of their website (their "DocumentRoot" in Apache parlance), then Apache would serve up the file, no HTML coding required.

Peace...

That is correct thing. Apachi treat the favicon.ico file as site icon. But some browsers looks for the HTML tags. So it is better to add the tad on every pages of your site.

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