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Problems with favicon, can not make it to show up whenever the path is different than having it saved in the same folder as the html one

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/photos/icon.ico" /> so this does not work

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="icon.ico"> but this works having the favicon in the same folder as the html one. How do I make it so that it will show up having it saved in the photos folder?

Solution

  • its a path problem. you can try one of two things.

    1. if on a live server already, you can direct it to where the file is located as this href="https://www.example.com/photos/icon.ico" (remember to path correctly if your photos folder isnt located in public_html)

    2. if the resource is located on a local server you can try using "./" (same folder as current page) or "../"(previous folder from current page).