How do you remove tomcat's default favicon?

tomcat favicon
Keith picture Keith · May 12, 2012 · Viewed 42.2k times · Source

Tomcat 6 seems to be providing a default favicon for my webapp - the tomcat logo. I don't have a favicon.ico in my webapp root, nor does my web.xml mention anything about a favicon. I even have a mapping in my web.xml for *.ico that goes to the default servlet, but it is still showing. How can I remove that tomcat favicon?

I know I can specify a favicon in several ways to override this default icon. I'm trying to find out how (if possible) to prevent the default favicon that tomcat adds and thus have no favicon.

Answer

Trevor Turton picture Trevor Turton · Jul 4, 2014

Delete or rename tomcat/webapps/ROOT/favicon.ico and Tomcat will look for a favicon.ico in the root of each web app that it serves. You don't need to put a into the head section of each page.

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