On Feb 4, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Bashiro wrote:
I have this virtual hosts setup. I tested and was working fine. Suddenly I started getting this error page cannot be displayed. I checke the error log and found cannot find "favico.ico". why do I need this file. Any suggestion on how to solve this ?
The favicon or Favorites Icon is the little icon that shows up to the left of the URL in the location bar of the browser. I believe Internet Explorer started this, but all modern browsers now try to retrieve this file along with the page. If it doesn't exist, you'll get a generic browser-defined icon in the location bar, and a line in the error log on your server.
There is a favicon.ico in your Apache installation, under manual/ images . Copy that to the DocumentRoot of your virtual host. It has a little Apache feather logo, if you want to serve a favicon that corresponds to your site content, design your own. Google for the exact format.
A missing favicon.ico does not cause errors displaying the page. If that were the case, half the websites on the planet wouldn't work. Find out what exactly the error is: turn off 'Friendly Error Messages' in IE or use a real browser that'll tell you what goes wrong.
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