Google currently does not show my website's favicon in its search results and I learned that it is becuase it should be located at example.com/favicon.ico. I'm looking for a simple way to do this, hopefully without relying on redirects. I've used redirection to the version in my static folder but when I visit the url it redirects to example.com/static/favicon.ico, which I do not want. I want that if a user or a crawler visits example.com/favicon.ico they see my favicon. It is currently located at:
my_project/
├── my_project/
│ ├── ...
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── ...
├── manage.py
└── static/
└── img/
└── favicon.ico
I use gunicorn as my web server and whitenoise as my http server. Here is my urls.py:
from django.urls import path, include # new
from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap # new
from finder.views import ProcessorDetailSitemap, ArticleDetailSitemap, StaticViewSitemap # Correct import path
#from django.conf import settings
#from django.conf.urls.static import static
sitemaps = {
'processor':ProcessorDetailSitemap,
'article': ArticleDetailSitemap,
'static': StaticViewSitemap,
}
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', include('finder.urls')), #new
path("sitemap.xml", sitemap, {"sitemaps": sitemaps}, name="django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap",),
]
It is also linked in my template usingn<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="{% static 'img/favicon.ico' %}">
Your question already has been answered here: How to get a favicon to show up in my django app?
In short you can create a new view that redirect favicon.ico to /static/img/favicon.ico or you just put the favicon with HTML:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static '/img/favicon.ico' %}"/>
Displaying the favicon in Google takes time, looks like you already did everything, so you just need to wait a little bit and if it doesn't appear, check the thread I shared.