favicon not showing up

[Michael.A]

ok i uploaded the favicon to the forum root and i add the code to the headerincluded and none showed up how come?

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

[Lynne]

You don't need to add any code to the headinclude. If you have the favicon.ico in the forum root, it will show up. You may have to clear your cache first.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

AFAIK showing a favicon is not a function of vBulletin, but a funtion of your webserver.

[Michael.A]

thanks lynne i well do that..
well Marco sorry for not ask the question right...

ok here is what i did

admincp > Maintenance > Diagnostics > Suspect File Versions

i get this{ Unable to read MD5 sums from file includes/md5_sums_vbulletin.php }

i tried re uploading it and steel not working?

ok here is what i did to fix this i renamed the file called

md5_sums_vbforum_4.php to md5_sums_vbulletin.php

i think you guys forgot to name it right...

[Lynne]

That was posted as a bug quite a while ago. They will get to it when they get to it. I don't understand what that has to do with the favicon, however.

[Michael.A]

it doesn't,
but an tell now that favicon is not showing up and dont say is the server or host buc i have my other site on the same server and it working fine.

same server same host..
favicon is showing = coderz4life (coderz4life.com) 3.8
favicon is not showing = websitesmasters (websitesmasters.com) 4.0.4 beta

[Brandon Sheley]

you might try adding it here
http://websitesmasters.com/favicon.ico
I see it in your forum folder

and marco is right, the favicon doesn't have anything to do with vBulletin, you can have a favicon with a blank html page

[Michael.A]

ya but i cant do that any think out side my forum root folder it wont be read..

this is what i have in my .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?websitesmasters.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/webmaker/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://websitesmasters.com/webmaker/" [R=301,L]

[Brandon Sheley]

was just an idea?
it shouldn't hurt anything to copy that image and place it in the root as well

[DeanLag]

I viewed your source and there was nothing mentioning favicon.

Put this in your headinclude
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" type="image/x-icon" href="./favicon.ico" />

[Michael.A]

You don't need to add any code to the headinclude. If you have the favicon.ico in the forum root, it will show up. You may have to clear your cache first.

by the way yes you do it take some times to show up.. thanks i got it working now

[DeanLag]

Oops, I didn't read Lynne post xD
I didn't know that, thanks Lynne!