FavIcons and the Apache Error Log, damn you IE!
Having written a small post about favicons, I stumbled across some interesting information while looking through works apache error log. Besides being HUGE, it was also annoyingly filled with favicon.ico missing statements.
This wouldn’t be such a big problem, if it wasn’t for the fact that I have never referenced a file called favicon.ico (for that matter my favicon are .PNGs). It turns out that IE5 by default looks for ‘favicon.ico’ in sites root directory, regardless of whether you specified a meta location or not (see the post below).
The solution?…. Nothing elegant I am afraid. Your chooses:
- Place the ‘favicon.ico’ in your sites root directory
- Inform apache that the file isn’t their and too not even bother looking (http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/02/no-favicon/)
- Create a dummy favicon.ico and place it in the root directory
I hate IE…