XF 1.1 Change Favicon path

[lazer]

Hey all

I have an .htaccess rule, so that all URL's have "www." applied to them.

I noticed that the path to my favicon does not have the "www." so would like to change it.

Is there any downside to changing the path to the favicon, considering I have the .htaccess rule applied?

 

[nodle]

Normally you just place your favicon in the root on your web folder. Your .htaccess shouldn't matter.

 

[lazer]

Thanks nodle, I know where the favicon goes So, to answer my question..?

 

[nodle]

Like I said there is nothing that you need to do, it's not dependent on your your .htaccess file. It doesn't matter if you use a www or non-www site. Since it's sits in your root folder whatever way you want your site displayed it just picks up the favicon. As far as I know there is no "path" since it's at your root. Unless you are doing something special? You are talking about your favicon.ico that displays before your web address correct?

 

[lazer]

We're trying to clean up load times and the re-direct of the favicon (for what it's worth) from non-www to www is flagged as a possible time saver.

 

[CTXMedia]

Where did you notice it doesn't have the www in the path? GWT?

Also, can you post your .htaccess in case the rewrite needs a tweak.

 

[lazer]

I believe it was picked up from an online analyzer Shaun, possible Pagespeed Insights.

@Jake Bunce did my .htaccess

 

[MagnusB]

favicos are something browsers are caching extremely hard. I have had to hard refresh 5 - 10 times before changes appear in the past, though it seems to be better now. My experience is that I just keep it in my root folder and it seems to work 99% of the time, and if it doesn't, it doesn't.

 

[CTXMedia]

Your favicon.ico file appears to be in the /xf sub-directory - it should be in the root.

Additionally, when I try to query the file from the root location - I'm redirected to your forum home at /xf

It looks like you either need to move the file or review the rewriting ...

 

[lazer]

In that case, I'll add a copy of the favicon in the site root...

 

[CTXMedia]

In that case, I'll add a copy of the favicon in the site root...

If you're only ever going to use one favicon for the whole site - move it to the root - that's where it should live anyway.

 

[lazer]

Having thought a bit more about this...

If I specify a favicon in the document header, the browser will load it early. If you don't specify a favicon, most browsers will automatically attempt to guess at it - they'll try looking for favicon.ico in the doc root. They do this after everything else has loaded though.

So by not explicitly linking to a favicon, apparent performance can improve slightly (because the favicon is loaded at the end, after the rest of the page).

As I see it, I have two choices:

1) Copy the favicon to my doc root, and get rid of:

<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://xxxxx.com/xf/favicon.ico"> in the template

OR

2) Change the link in the template to use http://www.xxxxx.com/xf/favicon.ico

Which would be better?

 

[CTXMedia]

Put it in the root and remove the link rel.

Performance wise you'd have to be on a pretty low-rent server for a favicon to have an impact ... (but speaking from experience of spending months knocking milliseconds off've page loads, I can understand the question; and if we're "doing the math" - you'll save a few bytes for each page load by removing the link rel from the HTML ... )

 

[lazer]

Yep, I think that's the better option...