Comments on: Serving favicon in an Django App using Apache

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:34:03 +0000

For nginx you can use:
If you’re using nginx, you can add the line:
location = /favicon.ico {
rewrite (.*) /media/favicon.ico;
}
in your .conf

By: KarlP

KarlP — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:41:34 +0000

Another option, one that doesn’t require knowing the full path to this particular instance of django is to use another location directive.

So I have first, a location directive for “/” that sets the handler to django

Then one for “/favicon.ico” that sets the handler to none, and finally one for “/media” which also sets the handler to none

This follows the same style as the “serving media files” section of http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#id1

By: pk

pk — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:10:42 +0000

The idea here is to by pass Django and just make the apache web server serves up the fav icon. Otherwise the other’s suggestions work also, but more work for Django.

Andre — the favicon tag is still needed in the HTML. This is just to deal with what happens when the browser ask for the fav icon file.

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:27:12 +0000

Is it not easier to add the favicon via a tag in the html?

I’m currently doing this in my websites, and since no-one mentions it, I’m afraid its a bad use?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:54:52 +0000

hey. even easier:

if you have django.redirects installed, just write a new redirect!

By: and3k

and3k — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:14:23 +0000

I’m using FastCGI for all my django sites and there’s an even simpler solution: Adding the following does the trick:

RewriteRule ^/favicon.ico$ /media/favicon.png [QSA,L,PT]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:55:06 +0000

Hey there. I tried to do this following your instructions, but it’s not working for me. I put the appropriate lines in httpd.conf and restarted apache.

Do I have to do something else besides update httpd.conf? You can email me back if you are inclined at andrewljohnson [at] gmail.com