Want to remove the HM icon in address bar

[webking]

Hi,

I want to remove the HM icon in the address bar before the http://

Thanks.

[Novernae]

Hi,

I want to remove the HM icon in the address bar before the http://

Remove the file favicon in your root directory, or replace it with one of your own. You can generate them on the web using your own images, or you can make one using an icon design program.

[afxal]

works fine with me thanx :D

[paul]

I too was experiencing the icon resurrection blues, so I serached the Internet for an answer. Apparently, most browsers request "/favicon.ico" when they load any page on your site. If the file did not exist, there would be a file not found error every time anyone viewed your site. You can imagine how many errors would end up in the server error log after a busy day.

Anyway, the word on the street is that you can bypass the server error and still not have a favorite icon on your website by adding the following to "~/public_html/.htaccess":


# Don't bother looking for favicon.ico
Redirect 404 /favicon.ico

# Don't bother sending the error page for favicon.ico, no one sees it anyway
<Files favicon.ico>
ErrorDocument 404 "No icon.
</Files>


Be sure not to add an end quote to ("No icon). It looks weird but it's correct for Apache 1.3. The syntax is different in newer versions of Apache.

[meyers3d]

yeah im curious as to how to change that as well. I tried doing as the previous poster said about removing that favicon.ico from the directory but the 'hm' was still there when i viewed my page. I was wondering if there's a simpler way to do this, such as using photshop to create a small icon and somehow replacing it. I really dont know anything about webpages, ect. I just know the very basics on how to upload. Im learning dreamweaver atm, so i will be able to setup links and whatnot.

Thanks

[Aaron]

You need to replace the favicon.ico with another one. You cannot leave it blank. There's a freeware icon editor called IconFX which I used to replace my favicon. You can download it from http://www.snapfiles.com/get/icofx.html

Make sure that your favicon dimensions are 15 x 15 pixels, or else your new favicon will not show!

[meyers3d]

wow thx for your help, i finally got it to work. But i had to do a lot of tinkering. First of all the icon is actually 16x16 pixels. And the only way i could get it to work was by downloading the original favicon.ico and opening that up in regular crap windows paint (that was the only program that would even read it).

From there i edited it to my liking then resaved it as favicon.ico then re-uploaded it back again. (for some reason the colors werent working properly in paint. It would only paint the colors of the original 'hm' icon even though i would select red or yellow)

anyways, i got it working. thanks

[Aaron]

Glad it worked out for you. If you used IconFX, you could actually import an image file you did up in photoshop and it will convert it to an icon for you immediately. That was how I did it.

The hostmonster icon is 15x15 for some weird reason, so if you used a 16x16, it will not work.

[shadmego]

my favicon is 16x16

[Aaron]

Well, it's weird that 16x16 didn't work for me but 15x15 did. :confused: