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[SOLVED] Favicon

Postby eric71 » May 24th, '11, 12:06

I miss a favicon when browsing the Mageia blog and forums. Maybe a little cauldron from the logo?
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Re: Favicon

Postby ahmad » May 24th, '11, 18:43

The blog uses the Mageia favicon.ico, maybe you need to empty your web browser cache?

(However I don't see the favicon.ico used in the forum, even with a new firefox profile).
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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » May 24th, '11, 19:50

It's a bit weird with that favicon. It shows in http://blog.mageia.org but not in http://blog.mageia.org/en/wp-login.php ; it shows in http://mageia.org but not in http://planet.mageia.org/ (just 2 examples).
I never knew where to put it on our webserver, trial and error showed that you have to either put it in all kinds of subdirectories or establish a lot of symlinks (while the favicon file is almost as small as a link).
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Re: Favicon

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 26th, '11, 23:17

Favicon seems now fixed for the english forum. What about the german?
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Re: Favicon

Postby maat » Jul 26th, '11, 23:59

The basic template by default does not declares favicon

The /de admins needs to add in the overall header something like :
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<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/de/favicon.ico" />


(And also ask sysadmins for pull & update from git if /de did not follow automagically /en)

You'll get also get Mark forum read ability provided you add the right line in the search results template

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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » Jul 27th, '11, 03:16

maat wrote:The basic template by default does not declares favicon
The /de admins needs to add in the overall header something like :
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<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/de/favicon.ico" />


(And also ask sysadmins for pull & update from git if /de did not follow automagically /en)

Will do that. But I do not see a favicon for the English forum yet.

You'll get also get Mark forum read ability provided you add the right line in the search results template
:)

Done already.
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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » Jul 27th, '11, 03:33

Now this is funny:
I put the line for the favicon into overall_header in the German forum and immediately after saving the file I saw the favicon show in the Firefox tab!
But I do not see the favicon in the tab of the english forum. See screenshot.
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Re: Favicon

Postby maat » Jul 27th, '11, 08:50

I see favicon in both... i guess this is due to browser and cache...
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Re: Favicon

Postby isadora » Jul 27th, '11, 09:15

No icons in FF-tabs /en-forum here neither, i do see them in tabs for bugs.mageia.org for example and in /de-forum.
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Re: Favicon

Postby maat » Jul 27th, '11, 09:33

See how it displays for me :)

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Re: Favicon

Postby Max » Jul 27th, '11, 09:35

I don't see the favicon in FF either.
BUT, I looked at the page source and saw this in the <head>:
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<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/en/favicon.ico" />

But in the other pages that do show a favicon the hypertext reference is:
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/g/favicon.png

Putting the full address for the favicon at http://www.mageia.org/g/favicon.png
Could the problem be as simple as that?

EDIT:
Due to maat's post I am inclined to agree that this may be a browser cache issue.
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Re: Favicon

Postby isadora » Jul 27th, '11, 09:46

Clearing cache did it!!!!!
Now i have the cute little icon for the /en-forum in FF-tabs as well.
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Re: Favicon

Postby Max » Jul 27th, '11, 09:50

Yes, that worked for me too, although I did need to restart FF...
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Re: Favicon

Postby isadora » Jul 27th, '11, 10:11

Max wrote:Yes, that worked for me too, although I did need to restart FF...

Yep, you are right.
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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » Jul 27th, '11, 11:28

Closed the tab with the forum, emptied the Firefox cache, closed Firefox. Started firefox, went to the forum - still no favicon for the English forum. The German forum showed the favicon right after changing the template, no page refresh nor cache emptying, nor browser restart necessary.
Opening the English forum in chromium-browser shows the favicon, opera shows it too.
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Re: Favicon

Postby doktor5000 » Jul 27th, '11, 11:34

Nice one. So it's only missing from http://planet.mageia.org and the http://blog.mageia.org/en/wp-login.php
wordpress login page.

@wobo: Here the favicon showed up automagically for the english forum yesterday in Firefox.
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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » Jul 27th, '11, 13:14

After I removed the cookies of forums.mageia.org and restarted Firefox again, the favicon shows for the english forum, too.
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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » Jul 27th, '11, 13:31

Missing or wrong favicons (without claim to be complete):

http://planet.mageia.org/en/ (no favicon)
https://ml.mageia.org/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi/lists (sympa favicon)
http://mirrors.mageia.org/ (no favicon)
http://www.mageia.org/en/about/2010-sep ... ement.html (no favicon)

Login pages of blog.mageia.org (no favicon)

All wiki pages show the DokuWiki favicon but we are changing to MediaWiki anyway.
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Re: Favicon

Postby maat » Jul 27th, '11, 13:50

Moved to forums discussions
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Re: Favicon

Postby wobo » Jul 27th, '11, 14:03

I better communicate the contents of my previous post (list of pages with missing favicon) in the web-team list - it's not related to the forum any more.
(EDIT: Done)

IMO this topic could be marked as [solved]
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