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Hwanma · November 18, 2016, 10:00:30 AM

how do I install favicon.ico
on my forums

d3vcho · November 18, 2016, 11:18:16 AM

Hello!

Favicon.ico is installed by default, so you'll need to be more specific. Post more info about your forum: forum version...

Regards

Illori · November 18, 2016, 11:25:06 AM

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Favicon.ico

kubMCC · November 18, 2016, 08:57:55 PM

Quote from: Illori on November 18, 2016, 11:25:06 AM
http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Favicon.ico

DANKE! Another question answered before I have to ask

landyvlad · January 26, 2017, 09:21:32 PM

OK so I placed a favicon.ico file (which is 32x32px) into the directory my forum is installed - www.domain.org/forum

I then cleared the image cache in my browser.

Should it show up now? Because it isn't....

Perhaps someone who hasn't visited the site before could click on the link and tell me if the favicon (as per the attachment) is showing for them please.

www.gsx1400owners.org/forum

ARG01 · January 26, 2017, 09:35:11 PM

I am not seeing it.

br360 · January 26, 2017, 09:39:39 PM

I'm not seeing it either. Just to be sure- you uploaded an image to the same directory as where settings.php and ssi.php are? You named it favicon.ico?

Linkjay · January 26, 2017, 09:54:14 PM

Favicons will take a while (usually a couple hours) to finally show for all of the users of your website, that is if you installed it correctly. If it doesn't show up in a couple hours, try adding this to the beginning of your <html> tag in your index.template.php in your current themes main directory. This may be a little hard to find, but just look around.

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

Then copy your favicon file to the same directory as the index template file and wait a while. Then you should be okay.

oOo--STAR--oOo · January 26, 2017, 09:57:31 PM

Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 09:54:14 PM
Favicons will take a while (usually a couple hours) to finally show for all of the users of your website, that is if you installed it correctly. If it doesn't show up in a couple hours, try adding this to the beginning of your <html> tag in your index.template.php in your current themes main directory. This may be a little hard to find, but just look around.

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

Then copy your favicon file to the same directory as the index template file and wait a while. Then you should be okay.

My bad lol, ignore that he has it correct its just not showing YET.

As mentioned you could add the line of code he stated. Search and place it before this, if a link rel for favicon doesn't exist yet.

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// Please don't index these Mr Robot.

Linkjay · January 26, 2017, 09:58:40 PM

Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 09:57:31 PM
Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 09:54:14 PM
Favicons will take a while (usually a couple hours) to finally show for all of the users of your website, that is if you installed it correctly. If it doesn't show up in a couple hours, try adding this to the beginning of your <html> tag in your index.template.php in your current themes main directory. This may be a little hard to find, but just look around.

Code Select Expand
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />

Then copy your favicon file to the same directory as the index template file and wait a while. Then you should be okay.

My bad lol, ignore that he has it correct its just not showing YET.

Lmao. Saw that your post then added a thing to the top of mine then saw you removed it and then I removed my addition. All good lol.

oOo--STAR--oOo · January 26, 2017, 10:09:47 PM

Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 09:58:40 PM
Lmao. Saw that your post then added a thing to the top of mine then saw you removed it and then I removed my addition. All good lol.

Lol, confusing sometimes when you see something that should be working

. Also to clear cache in chrome you would press CTLR+SHIFT+R... Might work in other browsers, some browsers you might have to press CTRL + F5 to do a hard refresh on that page. Of you could do it through your browser settings.

A good way to get fresh cache is to open your browser in incognito mode.

But I can confirm the favicon is not yet showing. It could possibly be because he has not included the line of code you stated. Most likely reason.

Linkjay · January 26, 2017, 10:24:42 PM

Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 10:09:47 PM
Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 09:58:40 PM
Lmao. Saw that your post then added a thing to the top of mine then saw you removed it and then I removed my addition. All good lol.

Lol, confusing sometimes when you see something that should be working . Also to clear cache in chrome you would press CTLR+SHIFT+R... Might work in other browsers, some browsers you might have to press CTRL + F5 to do a hard refresh on that page. Of you could do it through your browser settings.

A good way to get fresh cache is to open your browser in incognito mode.

But I can confirm the favicon is not yet showing. It could possibly be because he has not included the line of code you stated. Most likely reason.

I have always been frustrated by how long it takes to fully propagate with some things on a web server. Like if I make changes to an external CSS file, it wont update until a while. I think it's because I use Cloudflare and it has it's own weird caching system. What's even more annoying is clearing my own cache doesn't solve that problem. So I will either host the CSS in my index file, or where-ever it's being used or make the edit and go do something else and check back hours later.

oOo--STAR--oOo · January 26, 2017, 10:31:11 PM

Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 10:24:42 PM
Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 10:09:47 PM
Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 09:58:40 PM
Lmao. Saw that your post then added a thing to the top of mine then saw you removed it and then I removed my addition. All good lol.

Lol, confusing sometimes when you see something that should be working . Also to clear cache in chrome you would press CTLR+SHIFT+R... Might work in other browsers, some browsers you might have to press CTRL + F5 to do a hard refresh on that page. Of you could do it through your browser settings.

A good way to get fresh cache is to open your browser in incognito mode.

But I can confirm the favicon is not yet showing. It could possibly be because he has not included the line of code you stated. Most likely reason.

I have always been frustrated by how long it takes to fully propagate with some things on a web server. Like if I make changes to an external CSS file, it wont update until a while. I think it's because I use Cloudflare and it has it's own weird caching system. What's even more annoying is clearing my own cache doesn't solve that problem. So I will either host the CSS in my index file, or where-ever it's being used or make the edit and go do something else and check back hours later.

Been using Cloudflare for a long time

I can certainly tell you why that is happening. When making changes to CSS files and any file really that Cloudflare would naturally cache, you have to be in development mode. If you only just pressed this button then it can take a few mins for development mode to take effect. You can then do a hard refresh ctrl+shift+r in chrome and it will show you the edits after each change to the CSS file as long as the 3hr development period has not expired.

Also, once I have finished doing all my edits and I am completely done. I then take it out of development mode and then goto caching and then purge everything. This will make sure that the changes will be sent to everyone on next page load once the purging has finished.

If you have just made one small edit, I just purge the cache without going into development mode.

Hope that helps

Edit: You are using an external mail server to handle incoming and outgoing mail right? Otherwise Cloudflare is useless if you have email sending enabled in your forums. Just out of curiosity.

Linkjay · January 26, 2017, 10:39:19 PM

Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 10:31:11 PM
Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 10:24:42 PM
Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 10:09:47 PM
Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 09:58:40 PM
Lmao. Saw that your post then added a thing to the top of mine then saw you removed it and then I removed my addition. All good lol.

Lol, confusing sometimes when you see something that should be working . Also to clear cache in chrome you would press CTLR+SHIFT+R... Might work in other browsers, some browsers you might have to press CTRL + F5 to do a hard refresh on that page. Of you could do it through your browser settings.

A good way to get fresh cache is to open your browser in incognito mode.

But I can confirm the favicon is not yet showing. It could possibly be because he has not included the line of code you stated. Most likely reason.

I have always been frustrated by how long it takes to fully propagate with some things on a web server. Like if I make changes to an external CSS file, it wont update until a while. I think it's because I use Cloudflare and it has it's own weird caching system. What's even more annoying is clearing my own cache doesn't solve that problem. So I will either host the CSS in my index file, or where-ever it's being used or make the edit and go do something else and check back hours later.

Been using Cloudflare for a long time I can certainly tell you why that is happening. When making changes to CSS files and any file really that Cloudflare would naturally cache, you have to be in development mode. If you only just pressed this button then it can take a few mins for development mode to take effect. You can then do a hard refresh ctrl+shift+r in chrome and it will show you the edits after each change to the CSS file as long as the 3hr development period has not expired.

Also, once I have finished doing all my edits and I am completely done. I then take it out of development mode and then goto caching and then purge everything. This will make sure that the changes will be sent to everyone on next page load once the purging has finished.

If you have just made one small edit, I just purge the cache without going into development mode.

Hope that helps

Edit: You are using an external mail server to handle incoming and outgoing mail right? Otherwise Cloudflare is useless if you have email sending enabled in your forums. Just out of curiosity.

Haha, I will have to keep that in mind. I tried using development mode before but couldn't get it to quite work. Thanks.

Lol, I did encounter an issue with mail when I was trying to use sendmail with Cloudflare on my forums. I didn't know that this was actually the issue but I got in contact with my host and they gave me all of the SMTP details. To answer, yes I use my SMTP server to handle all mail from then on.

EDIT: Actually I think I straight up use my hosts record that goes straight to their server. I have an MX record through Cloudflare that points to my hosts mail server, where mine is hosted, but I don't use that one. So actually I don't think my mail is handled through Cloudflare. I will do further investigating on this.

oOo--STAR--oOo · January 26, 2017, 10:58:03 PM

QuoteHaha, I will have to keep that in mind. I tried using development mode before but couldn't get it to quite work. Thanks.

Lol, I did encounter an issue with mail when I was trying to use sendmail with Cloudflare on my forums. I didn't know that this was actually the issue but I got in contact with my host and they gave me all of the SMTP details. To answer, yes I use my SMTP server to handle all mail from then on.

EDIT: Actually I think I straight up use my hosts record that goes straight to their server. I have an MX record through Cloudflare that points to my hosts mail server, where mine is hosted, but I don't use that one. So actually I don't think my mail is handled through Cloudflare. I will do further investigating on this.

If your server is sending emails for things like registration, notification, news and what ever else then your IP is obtainable from the headers in the email that was sent to the person. So They can simply get the IP to your website by reading their email. Someone who wants to attack your site, this is general knowledge to them. Also your IP could possibly be resolved though DNS lookup.

There are also some Cloudflare resolvers that simply have a record of your old IP before you switched to Cloudflare, so its probably best to change your IP once you have switched to Cloudflare also, because some people do cache this and it can be easy to find IP addresses to websites that have not always been on Coudflare.

Linkjay · January 26, 2017, 11:04:42 PM

Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 10:58:03 PM
QuoteHaha, I will have to keep that in mind. I tried using development mode before but couldn't get it to quite work. Thanks.

Lol, I did encounter an issue with mail when I was trying to use sendmail with Cloudflare on my forums. I didn't know that this was actually the issue but I got in contact with my host and they gave me all of the SMTP details. To answer, yes I use my SMTP server to handle all mail from then on.

EDIT: Actually I think I straight up use my hosts record that goes straight to their server. I have an MX record through Cloudflare that points to my hosts mail server, where mine is hosted, but I don't use that one. So actually I don't think my mail is handled through Cloudflare. I will do further investigating on this.

If your server is sending emails for things like registration, notification, news and what ever else then your IP is obtainable from the headers in the email that was sent to the person. So They can simply get the IP to your website by reading their email. Someone who wants to attack your site, this is general knowledge to them. Also your IP could possibly be resolved though DNS lookup.

There are also some Cloudflare resolvers that simply have a record of your old IP before you switched to Cloudflare, so its probably best to change your IP once you have switched to Cloudflare also, because some people do cache this and it can be easy to find IP addresses to websites that have not always been on Coudflare.

Huh, I didn't think of that second part. Yeah, I will definetly do this asap. I wasn't really worried about DDoS attacks because I have pretty good protection through my host. I tested my Cloudflare IP and my host's IP with a 5 GBs stress tester and neither of them really got affected. That caching thing is enough though.

oOo--STAR--oOo · January 26, 2017, 11:08:17 PM

Quote from: Linkjay on January 26, 2017, 11:04:42 PM
Quote from: oOo--STAR--oOo on January 26, 2017, 10:58:03 PM
QuoteHaha, I will have to keep that in mind. I tried using development mode before but couldn't get it to quite work. Thanks.

Lol, I did encounter an issue with mail when I was trying to use sendmail with Cloudflare on my forums. I didn't know that this was actually the issue but I got in contact with my host and they gave me all of the SMTP details. To answer, yes I use my SMTP server to handle all mail from then on.

EDIT: Actually I think I straight up use my hosts record that goes straight to their server. I have an MX record through Cloudflare that points to my hosts mail server, where mine is hosted, but I don't use that one. So actually I don't think my mail is handled through Cloudflare. I will do further investigating on this.

If your server is sending emails for things like registration, notification, news and what ever else then your IP is obtainable from the headers in the email that was sent to the person. So They can simply get the IP to your website by reading their email. Someone who wants to attack your site, this is general knowledge to them. Also your IP could possibly be resolved though DNS lookup.

There are also some Cloudflare resolvers that simply have a record of your old IP before you switched to Cloudflare, so its probably best to change your IP once you have switched to Cloudflare also, because some people do cache this and it can be easy to find IP addresses to websites that have not always been on Coudflare.

Huh, I didn't think of that second part. Yeah, I will definetly do this asap. I wasn't really worried about DDoS attacks because I have pretty good protection through my host. I tested my Cloudflare IP and my host's IP with a 5 GBs stress tester and neither of them really got affected. That caching thing is enough though.

Its all good, now that you are aware you can test it out yourself and know that you are a little more protected

Steve · January 27, 2017, 09:25:21 AM

Quote from: br360 on January 26, 2017, 09:39:39 PM
I'm not seeing it either. Just to be sure- you uploaded an image to the same directory as where settings.php and ssi.php are? You named it favicon.ico?

You did this and named it correctly?

lurkalot · January 27, 2017, 02:10:37 PM

Quote from: Steve on January 27, 2017, 09:25:21 AM
Quote from: br360 on January 26, 2017, 09:39:39 PM
I'm not seeing it either. Just to be sure- you uploaded an image to the same directory as where settings.php and ssi.php are? You named it favicon.ico?

You did this and named it correctly?

This one? http://www.gsx1400owners.org/forum/favicon.ico

Linkjay · January 27, 2017, 02:12:53 PM

Quote from: lurkalot on January 27, 2017, 02:10:37 PM
Quote from: Steve on January 27, 2017, 09:25:21 AM
Quote from: br360 on January 26, 2017, 09:39:39 PM
I'm not seeing it either. Just to be sure- you uploaded an image to the same directory as where settings.php and ssi.php are? You named it favicon.ico?

You did this and named it correctly?

This one? http://www.gsx1400owners.org/forum/favicon.ico

Yeah, he uploaded it but never put the code in the header thus why it's not working.

I also want to state, so this doesn't get confused later, there are two people asking for support in this topic. The guy that owns gsx1400owners.org is not the original guy who made this topic.

Illori · January 27, 2017, 06:22:20 PM

you dont need to put the code in the header, any modern browser should pick it up automatically.

Linkjay · January 27, 2017, 07:15:52 PM

Quote from: Illori on January 27, 2017, 06:22:20 PM
you dont need to put the code in the header, any modern browser should pick it up automatically.

Favicons don't get picked up automatically at least from what I have ever seen like ever. It requires that it be referenced somewhere in the code. Only time I have ever seen it get picked up automatically is when some other parent directory has referenced a favicon. Let's say I reference a favicon by html in the directory /cool. Then if I make a new sub-directory there /cool/test and in test's index, I don't reference a favicon, it should get picked up by it's parent index automatically.

It's been roughly a day and no favicon on that man's site. Clearly something's not right.

Kindred · January 27, 2017, 08:14:42 PM

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6798689/do-most-browsers-automatically-search-for-the-favicon-ico

Linkjay · January 27, 2017, 08:29:25 PM

Quote from: Kindred on January 27, 2017, 08:14:42 PM
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6798689/do-most-browsers-automatically-search-for-the-favicon-ico

Well clearly we could see that the favicon was not in the root directory but a sub-directory.

oOo--STAR--oOo · January 27, 2017, 08:32:27 PM

Quote from: Linkjay on January 27, 2017, 08:29:25 PM
Quote from: Kindred on January 27, 2017, 08:14:42 PM
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6798689/do-most-browsers-automatically-search-for-the-favicon-ico

Well clearly we could see that the favicon was not in the root directory but a sub-directory.

Exacltly. His forum is installed in a sub directory, if he put the favicon in his actual public_html directory next to his forums folder then the favicon would work site wide with most browsers.

Because he has it in a subdir, he would need to include a reference in his header..

So you have 2 choices, put it in your public_html directory or add the favicon to your Index.Template.php

It should work then

landyvlad · January 29, 2017, 02:43:33 AM

Thanks all. Haven't had a chance to do this yet - will later, but thank you for your valued assistance !

kubMCC · February 01, 2017, 06:47:47 PM

Quote from: Hwanma on November 18, 2016, 10:00:30 AM
how do I install favicon.ico
on my forums

It HAS to be in the "uppest Domain Directory" !!! Don't matter WHERE (Subdirektory/Subdomain) the forum is installed.
The Forum needs "index.php"
The Browser searches NO subdirectories, ONLY the "domainname.xyz/favicon.ico". Even if the Forum is in "domainname.xyz/forum/ index.php

Our forum is forum.domainname.domain/testinstall/index.php
The favicon.ico is stored in forum.domainname.domain/favicon.ico NOT in forum.domainname.domain/testinstall/favicon.ico

Works fine

Linkjay · February 01, 2017, 07:48:09 PM

Quote from: kubMCC on February 01, 2017, 06:47:47 PM
Quote from: Hwanma on November 18, 2016, 10:00:30 AM
how do I install favicon.ico
on my forums

It HAS to be in the "uppest Domain Directory" !!! Don't matter WHERE (Subdirektory/Subdomain) the forum is installed.
The Forum needs "index.php"
The Browser searches NO subdirectories, ONLY the "domainname.xyz/favicon.ico". Even if the Forum is in "domainname.xyz/forum/ index.php

Our forum is forum.domainname.domain/testinstall/index.php
The favicon.ico is stored in forum.domainname.domain/favicon.ico NOT in forum.domainname.domain/testinstall/favicon.ico

Works fine

You're sort of necroposting and just echoing what we have all said so far. This post wasn't really needed at all.

landyvlad · February 01, 2017, 09:06:00 PM

Update - yes kubMCC is dead right. I did that and it works perfectly - for the benefit of anyone in future asking this question.

Thanks all.

Kindred · February 01, 2017, 09:22:17 PM

Or, as we have said... add the favicon definition code into the heade in index.template.php

Steve · February 02, 2017, 09:17:45 AM

I'm going to mark this solved even though the OP hasn't responded. He/she hasn't been here since the day after posting and the answer has been given.

@ Hwanma - if you're still having questions about this, mark it unsolved and ask away.

kubMCC · February 03, 2017, 07:42:20 AM

Quote from: Linkjay on February 01, 2017, 07:48:09 PM
Quote from: kubMCC on February 01, 2017, 06:47:47 PM
Quote from: Hwanma on November 18, 2016, 10:00:30 AM
how do I install favicon.ico
on my forums

It HAS to be in the "uppest Domain Directory" !!! Don't matter WHERE (Subdirektory/Subdomain) the forum is installed.
The Forum needs "index.php"
The Browser searches NO subdirectories, ONLY the "domainname.xyz/favicon.ico". Even if the Forum is in "domainname.xyz/forum/ index.php

Our forum is forum.domainname.domain/testinstall/index.php
The favicon.ico is stored in forum.domainname.domain/favicon.ico NOT in forum.domainname.domain/testinstall/favicon.ico

Works fine

You're sort of necroposting and just echoing what we have all said so far. This post wasn't really needed at all.

Thank You for the compliment!! Maybe YOU ALL said IT, but YOU ALL did not explain IT (for dummys) ..... Think about IT ;-)

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