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Ron Garret

2007-04-21, 1:22 am

It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
Or is it just random weirdness?

rg
David

2007-04-21, 7:17 am

Ron Garret wrote:
> It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
> has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
> Or is it just random weirdness?
>
> rg



That's funny I run Apache 2.0.54 and mine servers the favicon.ico file
using the permissions of 644

Just how are you calling you favicon

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/path/to/your/favicon.ico" />

are you using Linux or Windows?
Tom Horsley

2007-04-21, 7:19 pm

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:41 -0700
Ron Garret <rNOSPAMon@flownet.com> wrote:

> It turns out that to get Apache to serve a favicon.ico file, the file
> has to have its execute permissions set. Is there a reason for this?
> Or is it just random weirdness?


Perhaps that is simply when your browser finally became aware of it.
I know when I was trying to add a favicon to my web server, firefox
apparently had cached the fact that I didn't have one, I couldn't
get it to show up till I flushed the firefox cache and reloaded
the web page.
Ron Garret

2007-04-23, 7:22 am

In article < jaWdnWzj8alMWLTbnZ2dnUVZ_tyinZ2d@century
tel.net>,
David <youcantoo@findmoore.net> wrote:

> Ron Garret wrote:
>
>
> That's funny I run Apache 2.0.54 and mine servers the favicon.ico file
> using the permissions of 644
>
> Just how are you calling you favicon
>
> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/path/to/your/favicon.ico" />
>
> are you using Linux or Windows?


Linux. (Red Hat.) And it's just "favicon.ico" in the documentroot
directory. I got a 404 until I did chmod a+x (which I discovered after
reading http://www.yelsew.com/apache-favicon.html) after which it worked
fine.

rg
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