Setting up your favicon

[Unique Username]

Malcolm Melbourne submitted a new resource:

Setting up your favicon - This is the icon that you will see in the tab your browser.

This guide is a step by step guide on how to change your favicon. Firstly, what is a favicon? A favicon is an icon which belongs to a domain that is displayed in many different ways, as in your browser's web address bar or nex to the site name on your bookmark list. You could say it helps you identify a website quickly just by looking at the favicon.

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Step 1: Creating your favicon

You can start off by actually creating...

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[MARGO]

In order to view your newly uploaded favicon, you will have to force clear you cache or wait 24-48 hours.

To refresh your site's favicon you can force browsers to download a new version using the link tag and a querystring on your filename.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico?v=2" />

 

[Unique Username]

To refresh your site's favicon you can force browsers to download a new version using the link tag and a querystring on your filename.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico?v=2" />

Thank you

 

[Sutekh]

Where's the public_html? I'm not sure if it's in the ACP or the FTP and where within them x.x

 

[Unique Username]

Where's the public_html? I'm not sure if it's in the ACP or the FTP and where within them x.x

Hello @Sutekh ! Sometimes it could be labelled as htdocs, this is where you uploaded your XenForo files.

 

[Sutekh]

htdocs doesn't show up in FTP or ACP for me.

 

[Unique Username]

htdocs doesn't show up in FTP or ACP for me.

You could already be in it, on most webhost control panels (cPanel, Interworx etc) they have an option where you can create an FTP account in a specific directory. Would you be able to provide a picture of what you're looking at?

 

[Sutekh]

 

[Unique Username]

So htdocs/Public_html is where you put your site files. It's basically the root of your site. So you upload your favicon where your site files are

 

[Sutekh]

so upload it into "/" or? sorry I'm new to all of this.

 

[Unique Username]

so upload it into "/" or? sorry I'm new to all of this.

Hey no worries I was the exact same way! I'm assuming yes

 

[Sutekh]

For some reason the favcon has yet to change from the previous one, any reasons why?

 

[Unique Username]

Have you tried refreshing your cache?

 

[Sutekh]

I have yeah

 

[Unique Username]

Hmmm, Can you list all the steps you've done?

 

[Sutekh]

I followed the steps to make the favcon, found the favcon in the ftp, replaced it, cleared cache and waited 1-2 days.

 

[Unique Username]

Did you change the name of the favicon at all?

 

[Sutekh]

Uh no, only dif is the number in the save thing.

 

[Unique Username]

Uh no, only dif is the number in the save thing.

Can you give me your site link and what number thingy?

 

[Sutekh]

I'll pm you now