Favicon Placement

Do I need to put my favicon in my themes images folder or where should I put the image.

If using no source version, put in web root folder (i.e. same place as global.asax & web.config)
If using Visual Studio (source code), then put in root of project Nop.Web

(you may have to flush your browser cache to see it)

Do I need to name it something specific, because I have a custom name .ico and have it in the root and it still does not show. I also cleared the cache and does not show. I wanted to have the icon in the images folder with all other images, is this possible or does it need to be in the root.

Thanks

Pdesignz wrote:

It must be named favicon.ico, and must be put at the root. You can of course change the default behaviour, but then you have to customize the core. :)

Got it! As always Lam thanks for the help and response...

you can give the any path also by adding the following line insideyour head tag it in your  Presentation/Nop.Web/Views/Shared/_Root.Head.cshtml file.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourstore.com/favicon.ico" />

http://www.elaamart.com

I kept the favicon on root of the store but does not seem to be working for my store www.PenandPaper.co.in .

Do i need to recycle/refresh the store?

Hard links are not the best practice. It would be better to insert <link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/favicon.ico" /> (or whatever you want to name your icon file) into the /Views/Shared/_Roots.Head.cshtml file somewhere inside the head tags.
Injecting the shortcut icon line into the header is necessary for IE, it isn't needed for FireFox.

@wooncherk, You're correct regarding the ~, I don't know what I was typing the correct tag is: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/CCWPicon.ico" />

Replacing CCWPicon.ico with whatever your .ico file is named placed in the root

llabbott77 wrote:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="~/favicon.ico" /> wont work. HTML doesn't understand ~/. Try @Url.Content("~/favicon.ico") instead. :D