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[SOLVED] Favicon

Posted:
May 24th, '11, 12:06
by eric71
I miss a favicon when browsing the Mageia blog and forums. Maybe a little cauldron from the logo?
Re: Favicon

Posted:
May 24th, '11, 18:43
by ahmad
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).
Re: Favicon

Posted:
May 24th, '11, 19:50
by wobo
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).
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 26th, '11, 23:17
by doktor5000
Favicon seems now fixed for the english forum. What about the german?
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 26th, '11, 23:59
by maat
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

Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 03:16
by wobo
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.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 03:33
by wobo
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.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 08:50
by maat
I see favicon in both... i guess this is due to browser and cache...
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 09:15
by isadora
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.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 09:33
by maat
See how it displays for me


- mageia_favicon.png (222.99 KiB) Viewed 8406 times
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 09:35
by Max
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.pngCould 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.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 09:46
by isadora
Clearing cache did it!!!!!
Now i have the cute little icon for the /en-forum in FF-tabs as well.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 09:50
by Max
Yes, that worked for me too, although I did need to restart FF...
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 10:11
by isadora
Max wrote:Yes, that worked for me too, although I did need to restart FF...
Yep, you are right.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 11:28
by wobo
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.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 11:34
by doktor5000
Nice one. So it's only missing from
http://planet.mageia.org and the
http://blog.mageia.org/en/wp-login.phpwordpress login page.
@wobo: Here the favicon showed up automagically for the english forum yesterday in Firefox.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 13:14
by wobo
After I removed the cookies of forums.mageia.org and restarted Firefox again, the favicon shows for the english forum, too.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 13:31
by wobo
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.
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 13:50
by maat
Moved to forums discussions
Re: Favicon

Posted:
Jul 27th, '11, 14:03
by wobo
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]