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    Posted: 19 March 2009 at 11:49pm
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I've replaced the Favicon with a custom one relevant to our forum, but it won't display. Anyone have any ideas?
 
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IE and some other browsers will cache the favicon. You just have to wait for your browsers cache to give up the old one before you see the new one.
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It's been almost a month now and it still isn't showing. I've even manually deleted the cache. This is happening on every PC that accesses the Forum.

Any ideas?

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Ok, I just did a quick comaprison of the page source for this Forum and our Forum installation. This Forum has the <link> tags in the <head> block that you'd expect to see for a favicon (included below), yet ours doesn't. Any ideas on why this might be happening?

Link tags you'd expect to see:
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

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You do not need to have a link to the favicon file as your browser auto looks for it.

I do find though that some browsers, particularly IE onces they cache a favion they never update their cache. You may need to test in a difefrent browser you have never viewed the forum in.
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There are a few reasons why this could happen, but just to clarify -

Did you see the favicon when you first uploaded the forum?
Or now do you just see a blank like folder? beside the address?
Is your forum part of a site?

Also when you create a favicon you need to create it is an .ico file
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AND it's not just the extension - you can't make it with some software. It's got to be a certain size, and format file.
Not just any image renamed *.ico will work in my experience.
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If you need to make a Favicon.............
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