Favicon issue with Django - Chrome

Question

I'm having a pretty absurd issue everywhere. Every new Django project I create is utilizing an old favicon that I made a long time ago. In other words, all new Django projects have this old favicon and I have no idea how or why it's accessing it.

Any ideas?

It might just be cached? Have you forced a refresh (Ctr/Cmd+ R)? — solarissmoke, Jul 19 '16 at 03:56
Thanks, but unfortunately that didn't do the trick. I also attempted Ctrl + F5 method but no dice. — oakesonline, Jul 19 '16 at 06:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

There are two points to consider:

How you access your sites under development

If you use a generic URL such as http://localhost, your browser considers all your sites to be the same one. Thus, you suffer from cross-site caching issues. If so, you can try the well-known solutions described in How to force a favicon refresh. An alternative solution is to use you hosts file (/etc/hosts on Linux or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows). Add lines such as:

127.0.0.1 myfirstsite.com
127.0.0.1 mysecondsite.com

Then, browse your sites under development just like a regular site with http://myfirstsite.com or http://mysecondsite.com.

Duplicated favicon(s)

Is there any chance your icons are duplicated?

Maybe you have duplicated declarations in your HTML. Some browsers may use the first one, some others the second one.
Maybe you have a duplicated favicon in your root directory (ie. http://example.com/favicon.ico). This is a convention, so some browsers may pick this one instead of the one you declared in the HTML.

Thanks. I'll give them a shot. I deleted the Favicon folder in Chrome but that didn't seem to solve the issue. I did notice something weird though. When I go to Django's default server URL (http://127.0.0.1:8000/), I see the favicon. However, when I just go to localhost:8000, I DON'T see the favicon. Hopefully this will help me pinpoint the issue! — oakesonline, Jul 19 '16 at 16:41

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '23 at 17:44

If favicon is still not shown on your browser by clearing browser's cache, then you should use different urls.

For example, you use the url below:

http://localhost:8000/...

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Then, change localhost to 127.0.0.1 as shown below:

       ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
http://127.0.0.1:8000/...

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Or, change the port as shown below:

                 ↓↓↓↓
http://localhost:8001/...
                                   ↓↓↓↓
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8001

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