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[ccardiel Friend ccardielJoin date: May 2011Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 4]

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Hi!

I’m using purity ii on a joomla 1.7, and I want to remove the joomla favicon, but i can´t.

I’ve tried a lot of things, but nothing sems to work- any ideas??

Thanks

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#420792

What steps did you take?

With T3 templates, you must change the code within the head.php file within the blocks folder.

[ccardiel Friend ccardielJoin date: May 2011Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 4]

#420795

Thanks Tom

What I ried before was replacing the joomla logo with my logo…. but didn´t worked.
Also I put my logo in the template directory with another name (mylogo.ico) and modified the template details xml… but that didn’t work either.

Now I’ve tried what you just told me, but now there’s no favicon… any other idea?
the url to the site is http://www.auronix.mx

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#420805

Here is a tutorial on how to change the favicon (written by one of our Support Team Members, Blaine) . . . .

1. Create a 16×16 pixel image (Some programs prefer you start with a 32×32). You may use graphic software such as Photoshop, Gimp or Windows Paint or an online tool such as http://antifavicon.com/

2. Convert to ico format using free online sites such as:
http://converticon.com/
http://www.favicongenerator.com/
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

3. The file you created will have the extension .ico. Copy the file to the /joomla/templates/your ja template
directory and name it favicon.ico.

4. Open a browser. Do you see your new icon? If so, great! If not, that doesn’t necessarily mean you did anything wrong. Browsers are designed to minimize data traffic, so they don’t refresh the favicon every time they show a page. Even refreshing the page (F5) wont help. So you need to refresh more thoroughly:

Mozilla / Firefox / Safari: hold down Shift while clicking Reload, or press Ctrl-Shift-R (Cmd-Shift-R on Apple Mac);
Opera users may need to completely clear their cache in Tools>Preferences.
Chrome: Shift-F5
IE: hold Ctrl while clicking Refresh, or press Ctrl-F5;
Konqueror: simply click the Reload button, or press F5;

If this doesn’t work you will need to delete the temporary internet files and the history and then open your page again.
Some templates contain code that redirects the browser to another directory or another icon file. To determine where your new favicon should be, examine http://yoursite.com/templates/your_ja_template/index.php and look for code that contains the text

<link rel="shortcut icon"
.

There you will find the directory and the name of the icon file. Copy your icon to that place and give it the the name that link is pointing to (you might want to backup the old file). Make sure you set the security correctly such that you webserver has access to that file. Look at the example below.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://yoursite.com/templates/your_template/icon/favicon.ico" />

Also know that it may take several days for the favicon to show in the browser ~ even if you did everything right!

REMEMBER:
With T3 templates, you must override and change the code of head.php under block folder.

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1. ccardiel

[ccardiel Friend ccardielJoin date: May 2011Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 4]

#421203

I solved this!

It was something very simple and stupid…
The directory in head.php was different from the one I had my favicon! (dah!!):laugh:

TomC, as always, you are very helpful, thanks dude.

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#421372

<em>@ccardiel 278242 wrote:</em><blockquote>
TomC, as always, you are very helpful, thanks dude.</blockquote>

That’s what I’m here for . . . . Glad I could help out.

😎

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