Site Icon

[Joe_H]

How do you set a site icon (i.e. in browser tabs etc.)? Where is the favicon.ico file put and in what file is the html link to it inserted? I cannot find anything online on this. I have tried just putting the file into the root and not referring to it as apparently the browsers will pick it up automatically but that isn't happening.

Thanks in advance

Joe

[Jan Romero]

42 minutes ago, Joe_H said:

I have tried just putting the file into the root and not referring to it as apparently the browsers will pick it up automatically but that isn't happening.

That should be happening if you put it next to ProcessWire’s index.php unless the server refuses access or something. Look at the browser console. It probably shows an error trying to load https://www.example.com/favicon.ico.

But you can also put it anywhere and add a link tag in your head, such as:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="<?php echo $config->urls->templates?>style/favicon.ico"/>

 

[dotnetic]

Use this site, to generate all needed favicons and also the needed HTML code: Favicon Generator for perfect icons on all browsers (realfavicongenerator.net)

[Joe_H]

Thanks for the advice. I got it working. I think the bigger problem was the caching of the site icon in the browser and I thought it didn't work but when I went to a ipad I could see it and clearing the cache sorted it out but not on my main computer yet for some reason.