Favorite Icon

Is it necessary to include a

Code:

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<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/favicon.ico">

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... in every page on your website so that the favorite icon shows up in the address bar?

I've noticed that vbforums does not have that line in its source code, yet its vBulletin icon shows up in all the pages. (I'm using Firefox).

I tried that on my site, and am rather confused. I'm seeing it sometimes, sometimes I'm not.

Someone enlighten me please!

And an explanation about vbforums' icon would be most appreciated as well.

Have you got the home page set as one of your favourites?

I dont see the Icon on all pages im using Mozilla.

Me neither. Moz 1.8a

I don't have that line in any of my pages yet my site uses the favicon.ico for my site, I just simply put the file there after I noticed in the error log that the file had been requested quite a bit :D

For my site though it only works for the index page ;).

In Apache you can use a rewirte rule to return the same favicon everytime a request is made for a file called favicon.ico - even if the file is not in that directory:

Code:

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RewriteRule  ^.*/favicon.ico$  /favicon.ico

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Strangely, I get both.

Are you guys getting the favicon on mendhak.com?

I get your favicon on all you pages.

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Originally posted by visualAd
I get your favicon on all you pages.

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I love you. Give me a kiss.

The day I kiss a three eyed frog is the day I roast eggs on my buttocks.

Get it too. For the kiss please turn to my assistant.

:lol: