Nginx and favicon.ico - "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" FAILED

Question

How to I get rid of all the below errors in nginx. I do not have a favicon.ico

2012/03/11 17:13:25 [error] 959#0: *116 open() "/usr/local/nginx/html/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 111.68.59.75, server: 127.0.0.1, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"

I would imagine some line in nginx conf?

score 69 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 05 '19 at 08:19

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location = /favicon.ico {
  log_not_found off;
}

edited Mar 05 '19 at 08:19

palerdot

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answered Mar 11 '12 at 20:22

Alexander Azarov

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One should mention that this is a nginx setting. ``Edit the file /etc/nginx/sites-available/owncloud.conf`` (or similar) and add this. Then restart ``nginx`` OC community seems to discuss this topic as well. – Powerriegel Feb 04 '16 at 19:36
I'm using Elastic Beanstalk to run a Ruby on Rails application. I don't see any `/etc` folder, but i still get regular `/favicon.ico` not found errors. Where can i set a similar configuration for Elastic Beanstalk? – Jeremy Moritz Feb 25 '19 at 13:20
@JeremyMoritz I am not familiar with AWS EB setup, but maybe this is what you are searching for? -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23709841/how-to-change-nginx-config-in-amazon-elastic-beanstalk-running-a-docker-instance – Alexander Azarov Feb 25 '19 at 18:33
thanks, that was working perfectly. Is it a bad practice, or would there be a better place to "ignore" the favicon? – Pfinnn Jun 21 '22 at 12:42
@Pfinnn please post your answer if you know a better way. – Alexander Azarov Jun 22 '22 at 08:06

score 33 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 08:05

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The best solution for me is:

location = /favicon.ico {
  return 204;
  access_log     off;
  log_not_found  off;
}

answered Aug 08 '17 at 08:05

pprishchepa

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Please mention the file name where we have to add this configuration. – Vishal Shetty Dec 05 '18 at 09:29
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@VishalShetty Inside your site server section at `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite.com` – MGP Dec 14 '18 at 17:14

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '23 at 10:08

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/etc/nginx/sites-available/fileName

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html;
    
    location = /favicon.ico {
        return 204;
        access_log off;
        log_not_found off;
    }
}

answered Mar 06 '23 at 10:08

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Nginx and favicon.ico - "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" FAILED

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