URL icons

Can it be done if you're not root?

[eman]

I figured out today how to use favicon.ico to display a given icon in the favorites menu...a very cool tool. But I've seen a bunch of sites (this one included) with an icon next to the URL. I have shared hosting on my server, and I believe I read somewhere that it can only be done if you have access to the server root, not just your domain root. Is this true? Can it only be done if I have my own dedicated server?

[jetboy_70]

That'd be site root, not server root. Server root access is not needed to achieve this. Drop the favicon in the same folder as your index page (the site root). Add: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> to all your pages.

When you add the site to favourites, the icon will be displayed when you next visit the site. In IE, you need to have the site as a favourite for the icon to display. Mozilla will display it regardless.

[TheDave]

Actually IE seems to display it in the address bar only when it feels like it. I've got logos in my favourites but most of the time they don't appear in the address bar.

[bill]

You can also use meta tags in your pages:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="URL/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/ico" href="URL/favicon.ico" />

Replace URL with your URL...

[eman]

Thank you jetboy, I'm all about Mozilla firefox, I could care less about IE 5, that thing is the pop-up devil, (without the google toolbar). I am up and running...YAY!

[jetboy_70]

TheDave,

I think that in IE, if you clear your cache (delete temporary internet files) the icons get binned, so will no longer show on the URL line. They will remain on your favorites menu though. The only way to get them back on your URL is to add to favorites again.

[bruhaha]

The only way to get them back on your URL is to add to favorites again.

You can avoid this tedious process with the free utility "FavOrg". It allows you to manage your favicons, restoring lost ones and, if you like, adding your own custom ones when a site is missing one.

(In the process, it also flags dead links and allows you to automatically update redirected links!)

[jetboy_70]

Good point. I do use this myself, but it's very difficult to find a copy. Do you have a URL for it?

[Tropical Island]

jetboy_70

There is a very good SE called Google. :-)

I just entered FavOrg and immediately got the link for this utility.

[pcmag.com...]

[bruhaha]

Problem with the pcmag link -- you now have to pay to download from them!

But there are many others that still work. Try
[dothan.k12.al.us...]

[jetboy_70]

Thanks, that's what I was after. Virtually all the links listed in Google (thanks for the heads up Tropical Island, that looks like a decent little search engine) lead to the PCMag download site.