How can I get a favicon to show up in my django app?

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jononomo picture jononomo · Feb 21, 2014 · Viewed 105.1k times · Source

I just want to drop the favicon.ico in my staticfiles directory and then have it show up in my app.

How can I accomplish this?

I have placed the favicon.ico file in my staticfiles directory, but it doesn't show up and I see this in my log:

127.0.0.1 - - [21/Feb/2014 10:10:53] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -

If I go to http://localhost:8000/static/favicon.ico, I can see the favicon.

Answer

hanleyhansen picture hanleyhansen · Feb 21, 2014

If you have a base or header template that's included everywhere why not include the favicon there with basic HTML?

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}"/>

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