Setting up Favicon.ico file

I use GoDaddy to Host my site. I don't have MobileMe. In order to set up my site so the favicon.ico file displays on web browser tabs, can anyone run me through the steps to upload the file unto GoDaddy (I don't know where to go on the site) and what all I have to do from there? It'll sure be amazing if I don't have to put favicon.ico HTML code code on each page (yeesh....that'll be painful).

Try putting the icon image up one level.
I can access it directly as follows
http://www.servalonline.com/Serval_Online/favicon.ico
but the browser does not pick it up. It needs to be in the
root level for the site (unless the html tells it other wise).
i.e. http://www.servalonline.com/favicon.ico at the same level
as the Serval_Online folder.
Dave

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Firefox not displaying favicon/.ico file for specific website

Firefox has always displayed the favicon for my website, until recently. Now there is just a blank space where the favicon should be. I am able to see the favicon for all other websites except my own. It is a wordpress site, so I followed their most recent instructions for adding a favicon. I even tried some other guidelines and tips for adding .ico files, just in case wordpress was missing something, but still no luck. I have double-checked the file format as a 16x16px .ico file and made sure the code & image location within my website directory was correct... Everything looks as it should. The favicon is displaying perfectly in all other browsers I tried, such as Chrome, Safari, Opera & IE. I have cleared my cache, cleared my browser history and even uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox. I also tried another computer using a different IP address. It just isn't displaying.
When I preview the .ico file under 'page info -> media' it looks like Firefox is locating the image and recognizing the file dimensions, but nothing appears in the preview window and under 'file size' it just says "unknown (not cached)."
Here is the link to the site: http://www.mattielynn.com/
Does anyone know why this might be happening?

That image doesn't seem to be working in Firefox 3 and 8 (works in Firefox 9 and later).
It works if I save it as 24 bit instead of 32 bit.
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Why won't my favicon show up when the code and the favicon.ico file are correct? I am using Dreamweaver CC.

I have tried numerous .ico file makers and am using the code <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> in the <head> section and the favicon.ico sits above the index file, but it is not showing up on the tab in Firefox or IE. I have also tried numerous designs, as I thought that might be the problem -- here are a couple and . What am I doing wrong? I have tried everything and Googled everything. I also use PC, but I hope that doesn't stop the Mac users from helping me.

Thank you Jon. As I mentioned to Nancy, the Favicon finally showed up this morning. But also thank you for another time saving piece of advice that saved me a lot of time and effort and is not mentioned anywhere. You are so right, "There's really no reason to add the code in the <head> if the favicon.ico is in your site root. Simply placing it there will do the trick in all browsers." I only put the code on my index page because I wasn't sure it would ever show up, and lo and behold, when it finally did this morning, it did on all pages and they had no code.
It is unfortunate that on all the websites (and I read what felt like all of them) dealing with Favicons, no one mentions these points. It's simple
create the 16px by 16px favicon.ico
Place it in the site root
Empty your cache and bookmark the page
Wait -- it will show up, possibly the next day.
Margaret

Where do we put the favicon.ico?

I know that we have to put it in our file in idisk but where exactly?
Thank you
Odette

If you're hosting your site with MobileMe and have a domain name which you're forwarding with CNAME forwarding you just put the ico file in your iDIsk/Web/Sites folder.
If you're hosting to a 3rd party server you put the file in the same folder/directory that you upload your site to.
If you're hosting your site to MobileMe without a domain name put the favicon.ico file in the iDisk/Web/Sites folder and add the following code to an HTML snippet on each page:
<script type="text/javascript">
var head = parent.document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
var favicon = parent.document.createElement("link");
favicon.rel = ("shortcut icon");
favicon.href = ("http://web.me.com/your_MobileMe_Account_name/favicon.ico");
head.appendChild(favicon);
</script>
Thanks to Koeklin from this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11234670#11234670
It's a one time addition to each page of your site and no post publication editing of the site's pages are necessary.
OT

Favicon.ico on custom domain with .mac?

I get that there's no direct support for favicon's -
So what I've done is added the favicon.ico file to my
domain in the root and site directories on my iDisk–
but when I access the site it still shows the blue apple
network gel as the favicon. I've even tried adding the
shortcut code directly to the HTML- no luck.
Also, is there anyway to add 'title' tags to a page?
That seems pretty basic...
Also, Also - where the heck is the local copy of the
site on my drive?
Thanks!

So what I've done is added the favicon.ico file to my
domain in the root and site directories on my iDisk–
Create a favicon and add it to the root of the webserver.
Then every webpage should have this code in the HEAD of the page. Something like:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/wyodor/apple-touch-icon.png" />
It cannot be entered in iWeb. You need a HTML Editor.
Also, is there anyway to add 'title' tags to a page?
The title of a webpage is based on the large textbox at the top of each iWeb page. It's already there. You do not need to add it.
Also, Also - where the heck is the local copy of the
site on my drive?
~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites2
Where ~ means your homedirectory

Set favicon.ico

Hello,
is there any possibility to set a favicon in WDA?
Best regards,
Michael

Sorry Michael, I misinterpreted your question. my suggestion wont work for your requirement. Lets wait for other experts to reply.
in the meantime I came across this thread. check the comment from Thomas.
how to display logo in url
BR, Saravanan
Edited by: Saraa_n on Jul 22, 2011 8:30 AM

ICO file not displaying at run time?

Hello Experts,
I an using fusion 11.1.2.1 32 bit. I have Copied the Icons as well as GIF files in C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_FRHome1\forms\java folder.
At button property i set Iconic to yes
and file = addrow
Icon not display at run time.
but when i set file = abc.GIF
image is displaying at run time.
My doubt is that ICO file not displaying at run time while GIF file are displaying.
Do i need to change configuration ?
Please do the needful.
Thanks
Yash

Hi Yash,
First Try this steps
To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
Double-click My Computer, and then click Options on the View menu.
Verify that the Icon file type appears on the File Types tab. If the Icon file type does not appear in the Registered File Types box, skip to step 10.
Click Icon in the Registered File Types box, and then click Edit.
Verify that the following settings exist, and then click OK:
The Description Of Type box contains Icon.
If there is a Confirm Open After Download check box, it should be selected.
If the settings do not appear exactly as listed in step 4, click Remove, click Yes, and then click OK. If the settings do appear as listed in step 4, skip to step 10.
Click New Type.
In the Description Of Type box, type Icon.
In the Associated Extension box, type ICO.
Click OK, and then click Close.
Use Registry Editor to view theHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.icokey, and then verify that the default string contains the following value:icofileIf the .ico key does not exist, create it, and then insert the value listed above. If any other values exist in the .ico key, delete them.
Use Registry Editor to view theHKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\icofilekey, and then verify that the default string contains the following value:iconIf the icofile key does not exist, create it, and then insert the value listed above. If any other values exist, delete them.
Create a new key in the icofile key called DefaultIcon , and type %1 as this key's default value.
Quit Registry Editor, and then restart your computer.
Second Try this
Simple way
Copy your images to:
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c:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\forms\java\
Notes:
- Icon files may not be supported.
- In case of a Java security issue when using gif images, you will need to create a jar file and sign it with oracles sign-tool (see below, point 6).
- In case you having trouble with oracle’s sign-tool, do it directly with java’s
Recommended way
1. Create a “icons” folder and place all your gifs in there
i.e. “c:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\forms\java\<icons>”
2. From within icons folder make a jar file of all the gif images:
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jar -cvf frmicons.jar *.gif
3. Copy this new jar into “c:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\forms\java\”
4. Edit/update formsweb.cfg file:
path = c:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<my_domain>\config\fmwconfig\servers\WLS_FORMS\applications\formsapp_11.1.1\config\formsweb.cfg …to update/include:
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# Forms applet parameter
codebase=/forms/java
# Forms applet parameter
imageBase=codebase
# Forms applet archive setting for other clients (Sun Java Plugin...etc)
archive=frmall.jar,frmicons.jar
# Forms applet archive setting for JInitiator
archive_jini=frmall_jinit.jar,frmicons.jar
5. Edit/update Registry.dat file:
path = c:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<my_domain>\config\fmwconfig\servers\WLS_FORMS\applications\formsapp_11.1.1\config\forms\registry\oracle\forms\registry\Registry.dat
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default.icons.iconpath=icons/
default.icons.iconextension=gif
At this point your icons should work normally, but if you get a security check of Java for gif files then proceed to the next step to fix this. TIP: May need to restart the weblogic/forms server for changes to take effect.
6. Sign your jar file with oracles sign_webutil.bat sign-tool.
path = c:\Oracle\Middleware\asinst_1\bin\sign_webutil.bat
Firstly, you need to edit the sign_webutil.bat as follows:
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SET KEYSTORE_PASSWORD=my_password
SET JAR_KEY=webutil2 # will need to change for every run
SET JAR_KEY_PASSWORD=my_password
Secondly, set the environment path and finally run the command:
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set path=c:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\jdk\bin
cd c:\Oracle\Middleware\asinst_1\bin\
sign_webutil c:\Oracle\Middleware\as_1\forms\java\my_icons.jar
This will create your signed jar file. Once initialized from the web-app it should ask the user to “Trust” the certificate and never prompt again.
Other issues you may encounter and may need to edit/update the following files/registry entries as well:
formsweb.cfg
path = c:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<my_domain>\config\fmwconfig\servers\WLS_FORMS\applications\formsapp_11.1.1\config\formsweb.cfg
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# Forms applet parameter
codebase=/forms/java
# Forms applet parameter
imageBase=codebase
# Forms applet archive setting for other clients (Sun Java Plugin, ...etc)
archive=frmall.jar, my_icons.jar
...or
# Forms applet archive setting for JInitiator
archive_jini=frmall_jinit.jar, my_icons.jar
Registry.dat
path = c:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\<my_domain>\config\fmwconfig\servers\WLS_FORMS\applications\formsapp_11.1.1\config\forms\registry\oracle\forms\registry\Registry.dat
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default.icons.iconpath=/forms/java
default.icons.iconextension=gif
Registry entries:
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UI_ICON:<path_to_icons_dir>
UI_ICON_EXTENSION: "gif": ".gif" "ico": ".ico"
Credits and further information can be tracked for icons issue here and for jar file creation here.
Hope this will help.

How do I get my favicon.ico to show in my site with firefox browser?

I uploaded my favicon.ico to the root directory, it shows in Chrome, but not in firefox. I've cleared the cache, still not appearing, yet when I type mydomain.com/favicon.ico it appears in firefox.

The problem is usually that the file size is too large or there are multiple images (layers) in the file or it is an unsupported format.<br />
I can't tell more about without inspecting the favicon.

Reading/writing .ico files

I'm working on a coldfusion system where users can upload
their own favicon files for their site. To allow compatibility with
IE I want to allow for .ico files but I need to determine their
dimensions so that I can limit the size. The restrictions of the
JVM mean that Coldfusion can't read or write .ico files and I was
wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
I'm currently trying to write a function which uses the Java
JIMI library (
JIMI) but it's not
simple and keeps preventing me from deleting images once I've read
them (possibly because I'm using it wrongly).
If anyone can help then that'd be great.

A
posting
on image processing made me have another look at your problem.
I think you should install the
hotfixes.
One of them actually solves the problem whereby
"CFImage and the image functions can leave an image file locked
after an initial write to disk in Adobe ColdFusion 8.0.1."

Show an ico file in an HTML Air app

Hi,
I have an air app, of the HTML variety, and I'd like to be
able to show .ico files in it.
In Safari/Webkit you can do this:
<img src="
http://somedomain.com/favicon.ico"
width="16" height="16" />
But it doesn't work in Air.
I've seen this Flex app that can render ico files:
http://flexlib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/IconLoader/IconLoader_Sample.swf
Using the IconLoader custom Flex Component:
http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList
Is there a similar workaround that anyone knows?
Thanks in advance

The icon loading code you reference is ActionScript, so you
could convert it into a utility for turning icons into png files --
along with a PNG encoder, of course -- which is also available in
an AS library on Google code. (You can load a SWF utility into a
page using the script tag.) You could then load the converted png
file for display.
ASFAIK, the only way to bridge the image gap between
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Why is favicon.ico in Safari 5.0 not showing?

I have added a faviocn.ico to my website. It shows in all browsers but Safari 5.1.1. Does anybody have an idea?

If anyone else has this question. Do you get a broken favicon (a jittery favicon) or none at all (standard blue sphere)? In the first case try to change to another ico file. It is something about the colors. I used http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and a transparent png as source and git it to work on Safari 5.1.7 where i hade a broken one before. If you get none try adding type="image/x-icon" to your link rel="shortcut icon" tag.

Open .ico files from Bridge CS4

Hey all,
I just got done reformatting my hard drive. After reinstalling my Adobe CS4 software, I can't open .ico files from Bridge -- before the hard drive reformat I COULD open .ico files from Bridge. I can open .ico files directly from Photoshop (I've got the telegraphics.com/au .ico plugin installed in Photoshop to open and save .ico files.)
If I right-click an .ico file in Bridge and select "Open With" the only option is: COM Surrogate 6.1 (default).
Looking at Preferences > File Type Associations, .ico file type isn't available in the file type list. Anyone know what setting or preference I need to change to open .ico files in Bridge?
Appreciate your help,
Brian

Never mind... I closed Bridge by selecting File > Exit (instead of clicking the close button in the upper-right of the program window) and after restarting I'm able to open the .ico files.
Brian

Favicon.ico image does not display consistently for our application,

Hi,
We have configured a favicon.ico for our application as below code snippet and referring to the favicon.ico image correctly. The icon file is available in our war file post deployment. The problem is some times it displays correctly and sometimes it does not display correctly.
<af:outputText value="<link rel='SHORTCUT ICON' href='#{facesContext.externalContext.requestContextPath}/images/favicon.ico'/>" id="favicon" escape="false"/>
Can anyone point to any issue related to browser caching or application server caching and any possible fix to this intermittent behavior.
regards,
Chandra.

Browser caching might be a problem, but we can't help as it is a browser issue. All I can say is to clear the browser cache and see if the problem can be reproduced. If yes it doesn't look like a browser problem. Then you have to check if you are connection via proxy which might cache images too. Ask your network admin for help then.
Do you see this problem only with one browser? Have you check other browsers?
Timo

Icon (*.ico) files in developer 6i

Hi Guys and Gals,
I have just installed developer 6i on my computer which runs with Windows 98 operating system. Every thing works properly but only one funnything is i found only four or five icon files (.ico) in my harddisk. Then searched in the windows registry to see in which directory these icon files are located, unfortunately i couldn't find out any registry entry for icons. (It's usual - If icon's are not there means why registry entry for icons?.) So now my toolbar buttons are almost naked except save and exit buttons, i don't know from where only these two buttons got icons.
Any one had the same problem?
Please give me a solution.
With regards
Rahman.
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Hi,
The icons in webforms have to be in .gif or .jpg format. This is because the webform user interface is handled by java and java uses .gif or .jpg instead of .ico files.
In order to display icons on web, you will have to set the icons path in Registry.dat file. The Registry.dat file is located in ORACLE_HOME\FORMS60\JAVA\ORACLE\FORMS\REGISTRY\.
You need to create a directory mapping for the web listener and add the virtual directory to the 'iconpath' setting in the Registry.dat file.
For eg, if you have the following directory mapping in your web listner,
C:\ORANT\webdb\images\ /images/
then, edit the Registry.dat file as follows,
default.icons.iconpath=/images/
Now, all the icons are searched in C:\ORANT\webdb\images
Note that, when you change the Registry.dat file, you need to stop and restart the Forms server listener in order for the changes to become active.
Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tomzl:
I work with forms 6i. In client server option icons are visible. In web option I can't see icons.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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JWS - JNLP - icon using .ico-files?

After reading the enhancements here http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/javaws/enhancements6.html
I tried to use .ICO-files in the JNLP-<icon>-Tag without success. Also .PNG-files don't work.
The search with google also found only questions but no answers.
Additionally I only found samples using .GIF-files!
We want to use "rounded" pictures for desktop links, thus we need a format with transparent colors support.
Additionally we want to have the ability to use different sizes depending on desktop settings.
The .ICO-file format - out of the box - supports both of that!
Does anyone has a RUNNING sample-JNLP using an .ICO-file or .PNG-file? Or can point me to a solution to that problem?
Running: Java 1.6.0.22, Windows XP & Windows 7
Thanks in advance

Hello,
have you took the application/x-java-archive-diff MIME type into your tomcat-web.xml?
I have found this in the jnlp-specifications:
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6.3 Version-based Download Protocol
For the version-based download protocol, all resources are uniquely identified by a URL/version-id pair. Thus, a JNLP Client can at any given time request a specific version of a resource located at a specific URL.
The JNLP Client issues an HTTP GET request that includes the specific version of the resource that it needs. The request includes the field version-id, which specifies the requested version. For example, given the following jar element:
<jar href="http://www.mysite.com/b.jar" version="2.3+"/>
then the JNLP Client must issue the following HTTP GET request14:
http://www.mysite.com/c.jar?version-id=2.3%2B
The JNLP Client must examine the HTTP response status code and MIME type to determine if the result was successful. The valid responses are described in section 6.1.2. For the above jar element, the application/x-java-archive-diff MIME type cannot be returned. It can only be returned for incremental requests.
The version string used in the request is not necessarily exact, e.g., 2.3+. The Web server must specify the exact version-id of the resource that is returned in the response by setting the HTTP header field: x-java-jnlp-version-id. The exact version returned must be one that matches the requested version string.
6.3.1 Incremental Updates for JAR files
JNLP allows incremental updates to be applied to JAR files. Typically, downloading an incremental update will be much faster than downloading the new version. Incremental updates are distributed in the form of JARDiff files, which are described in Appendix B.
If the JNLP Client has a previous version of a given JAR file already cached, e.g., version 2.2, then this fact can be specified in the request. The Web server can then potentially provide an incremental update that can be applied to the existing file, instead of returning the contents of the new file.
An incremental update is enabled by providing information about the version that is already cached by the JNLP Client in the HTTP request. The field current-version-id is used to specify the existing local version. For example:
http://www.mysite.com/c.jar?version-id=2.3%2B&current-version-id=2.2
The current-version-id must always be exact. If several versions of a given resource are in the cache, then the highest version-id that is lower than the requested version should be used. The Web server is not required to return an incremental update, but could just return the requested JAR file.
The returned contents of the response are the same as for the request without the current-version-id field, except that a JARDiff file might be returned. In that case, the response MIME type must be application/x-java-archive-diff.
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