Hi,
I webmaster a web page at, lets call the address: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ourlittledivision.bigcompanydomain.org">www.ourlittledivision.bigcompanydomain.org</a><!-- w -->. Here (at our company) I have all files of the web page, including a functioning favicon.
I have also complemented with a more readable web address, lets call it: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ourlittledivision.com">www.ourlittledivision.com</a><!-- w -->. This second address simply redirects to the first address mentioned above. This domain with its redirection is located at an external web hotel.
These two alternative addresses means you can reach the web pages either way by just writing either the first or the second url. My question is that the favicon appears fine if you use the first address, but not if you use the second. The favicon seems to be lost in the redirection, and just IEs default icon is shown.
The web hotel should not be blamed. I use it for other web pages where the favicons work, but they are not redirected.
My picture favicon.ico lies just next to the index file in the root, not in any of the folders. The code in the index file is simply:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
So, can anyone mediate...? Somebody out there must have seen this phenomena. I guess there are more than I that could be helped by a solution to this question...
Best regards
Stonechat
PS. My favicon does not work in Mozilla Firefox at all so if you cannot help me with the above question maybe you can help me with explaining this latter one...Have you tried using an absolute URL?
I webmaster a web page at, lets call the address: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ourlittledivision.bigcompanydomain.org">www.ourlittledivision.bigcompanydomain.org</a><!-- w -->. Here (at our company) I have all files of the web page, including a functioning favicon.
I have also complemented with a more readable web address, lets call it: <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ourlittledivision.com">www.ourlittledivision.com</a><!-- w -->. This second address simply redirects to the first address mentioned above. This domain with its redirection is located at an external web hotel.
These two alternative addresses means you can reach the web pages either way by just writing either the first or the second url. My question is that the favicon appears fine if you use the first address, but not if you use the second. The favicon seems to be lost in the redirection, and just IEs default icon is shown.
The web hotel should not be blamed. I use it for other web pages where the favicons work, but they are not redirected.
My picture favicon.ico lies just next to the index file in the root, not in any of the folders. The code in the index file is simply:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="icon" href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
So, can anyone mediate...? Somebody out there must have seen this phenomena. I guess there are more than I that could be helped by a solution to this question...
Best regards
Stonechat
PS. My favicon does not work in Mozilla Firefox at all so if you cannot help me with the above question maybe you can help me with explaining this latter one...Have you tried using an absolute URL?