favicon.ico doesn't appear when I deploy application to google app engine

Question

I have placed favicon.ico in the web-pages directory of my project. I also placed a tag in the jsp page to put the favicon on the browser :

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

but still the favicon doesn't appear in the browser.

Why is that ? What do I need to do put the favicon in the browser.

are you pushing your favicon to appengine as a static resource ? — Tim Hoffman, Jul 28 '12 at 08:54
images, css, js all need to be deployed via static resources in app.yaml. See https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/configyaml/appconfig_yaml#Static_Files_and_Resource_Files for more details. You may not be using app.yaml but there are xml equivalents - https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appconfig#Static_Files_and_Resource_Files — Tim Hoffman, Jul 28 '12 at 15:47

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '12 at 21:17

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Even if the favicon path gets resolved correctly, you might still need to clear the browser's favicon cache (happened to me once).

For example with Safari/Mac OS: Quit the browser, then delete the file $HOME/Library/Safari/WebpageIcons.db.

answered Jul 31 '12 at 21:17

pipacs

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A hard refresh `SHIFT+F5` solved the issue for me. The new favicon started to show. – gsinha Aug 24 '14 at 15:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '12 at 06:11

URLs need to be resolved as a real public web address not server side paths.

Try this:

<link href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/favicon.ico"  rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />

or

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

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