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[planetstar Friend planetstarJoin date: April 2012Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#176046

My favicon.ico is not showing. I am using the Puresite template on JAT3 2.0

I get the Joomla favicon not matter what I do.

I have placed my own blue star favicon in every template folder, just to be sure…

I have placed it in the link in my soucefile:

<link href=”/plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/images/favicon.ico” rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” />

and I can look it up: http://stjerne.org/plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/images/favicon.ico and it shows ok.

I have cleared the JAT3 cache more than 100 times, I have no caching enabled on the site, but just to be sure, I have purged and cleaned the Joomla cache.

If I change theme to any of my other themes not based on JAT3 I get the correct icon.

I have installed the Elastica JATC theme to. If i enable that theme, I get the Joomla favicon, too.

If is disable JAT3 I get an error, but i get the correct icon

If I request a page not being on the site, I get the correct icon on the 404 page.

Can anyone tell me, where that black Joomla favicon.ico comes from???

This is driving me nuts.

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#448188

<em>@planetstar 313482 wrote:</em><blockquote>
This is driving me nuts.</blockquote>

Know the feeling! The link you give STILL shows the black Joomla favicon too.

The best advice I can give you is to delete the favicon completely using your ftp client and then install yours. That works for me always. Hope it helps you.

[planetstar Friend planetstarJoin date: April 2012Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#448192

I have tried to remove all favicon.icon files in every template including the one in the JAT3 default theme, reset all cashes, made sure that I could the reach the favicon in the direct link – and the black Joomla icon shows up.

If I search for favicon in this forum I get so many, many questions when JAT3 is involved. I have not been able to find any documentation especially not on why I have to go deep down in a framework to change a favicon file – the idea of frameworks is, that you should never think about it and be able to replace it with a new version and it should not change your site.

I really, really don’t understand this.

Frank

[kiab Friend kiabJoin date: April 2012Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 5 times in 3 posts]

#449265

Ok managed to change it.

I dont know which step were usefull but :

Deleted All favicon.ico 1 by 1.
Waited till the site show no favicon at all.
Uploaded the right one in
/plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/images

The 2nd time, it worked.

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[Winchester Friend WinchesterJoin date: February 2011Posts: 32Downloads:24Uploads:3 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 19 times in 6 posts]

#450602

<em>@kiab 314923 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ok managed to change it.

I dont know which step were usefull but :

Deleted All favicon.ico 1 by 1.
Waited till the site show no favicon at all.
Uploaded the right one in
/plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/images

The 2nd time, it worked.</blockquote>

There’s a better way to do this.

1: Copy the “head.php” file from “/plugins/system/jat3/jat3/base-themes/default/blocks” to “templates/your_t3_template/blocks”

2: open it up and look for the following line:
<link href=”<?php echo T3Path::getUrl(‘images/favicon.ico’) ?>” rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” />

3: Replace it with this line:
<link href=”<?php echo JURI::base(true).”/templates/ja_t3_blank/favicon.ico”; ?>” rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” />
Note that ja_t3_blank should be replaced with the name of your JA T3 folder’s name.

3: Place your custom favicon file to your template folder; “templates/your_t3_template/favicon.ico”

This way whenever you upgrade your template to a newer version, it doesn’t undo the change you made.

Hope this helps.

Winchester

Best regards,
H. Winchester Lyon

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#450718

<blockquote>Hope this helps.
Winchester</blockquote>

Thank you (:

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#451694

It worked, thank you very much!!!!

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#469775

God Bless you Winchester….Forza!

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#470566

<em>@winchester 316597 wrote:</em><blockquote>There’s a better way to do this….

…Hope this helps.

Winchester</blockquote>

Thank you, Winchester! This worked for me, too!😀

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#473522

Wow! Thanks, winchester! I’m really surprised at the esoteric solution. But I’m really happen I found it and it works!

[mackdoyle Friend mackdoyleJoin date: May 2012Posts: 21Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#475589

Or you could just replace the favicon link the the blocks/head.php with:

<link href=”favicon.ico” rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/x-icon” />

And place the favicon.ico in the site root, where it’s supposed to be.

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1. rasivert

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#486561

Why does it have to be so complicated????

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#486796

Hi Luiz,

Please follow winchester ‘s tip: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/favicon-ico-how-many-are-there/#post-450602

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#487535

Thank you! Worked flawlessly for me too!

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#487617

It works. Thanks.

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