What is the final/best recommendation for how to serve
favicon.ico in ASP.NET MVC?
I am currently doing the following :
- Adding
an entry to the very beginning of my RegisterRoutes
method :
routes.IgnoreRoute("favicon.ico");
- Placing
favicon.ico in the root of my application (which is also going to be the
root of my domain).
I have two questions :
- Is
there no way to put favicon.ico somewhere other than the root of my
application. Its pretty icky being right there at the same level as Content and Controllers.
- Is
this IgnoreRoute("favicon.ico") statement sufficient -
or should I also do the following as discussed in a blog post from
Phil Haack I'm not aware of ever having seen a request to favicon.ico in
any directory other than the root - which would make this unnecessary (but
its nice to know how to do it).
routes.IgnoreRoute("{*favicon}", new {favicon=@"(.*/)?favicon.ico(/.*)?"});
Tom Cruser
22-Jan-2015Placing favicon.ico in the root of your domain only really affects IE5, IIRC. For more modern browsers you should be able to include a link tag to point to another directory:
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="http://www.mydomain.com/content/favicon.ico"/>
You can also use non-ico files for browsers other than IE, for which I'd maybe use the following conditional statement to serve a PNG to FF,etc, and an ICO to IE:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://www.mydomain.com/content/favicon.png" />
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.mydomain.com/content/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" />
<![endif]-->