Trouble getting favicon to show in staging and production en

I have a favicon.ico in the root folder. In my master pages I'm adding the following link in the head:

 <link rel="shortcut icon" runat="server" href="~/favicon.ico"/>

Works in all browsers on localhost but not on staging or production environments. If I try to browse to localhost:1801/.../favicon.ico it appears in my browser but if I try to browse to in on staging or production I get System.Web.HttpException: Failed to Execute URL.

I'm using SF 5 on windows 7 for localhost and SF 5 on windows server 2003 for staging and production.

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Hey Jeff,

You say if you browse to localhost:1801/.../favicon.ico on localhost it works while you're using a <link> tag pointing to href="~/favicon.ico" (without the /web/ folder) so I'd check that.

And secondly, a ~ points to a Web application root folder when specifing a path in a server control. Since you're using runat="server" have you checked that its setup in VisualStudio as a web application and not a website and that in IIS it's also setup as an application and not a regular folder?

Jochem

Yes, I've confirmed. It's running as an appplication. I've also tried without the runat and set the path to /web/favicon.ico, tried www.mywebsite.com/favicon.ico, tried ../favicon.ico. Everything I could think of but none work on our staging or production environment.

Surely, browsing to www.mywebsite.com/favicon.ico in a browser should work. That seems to be the root of the problem.

@Jeff,

If you're using Chrome, can you right click the page and select "view page source" ?

That'll show you the rendered source in a new tab. Locate the favicon.ico link and hover over it.
The source link should give you the relative path, but while hovering at the bottom of the screen you'll see the full rendered url.

If you're certain that url is correct and browsing to it just gives you a 404, perhaps you need to verify your IIS mime settings to check whether .ico is mapped to image/x-icon.

Jochem

The mime type is registered as image/x-icon in both environments.

Looking at the source on production, the link is set to href="favicon.ico" and when I hover over it, it displays www.mywebsite.com/favicon.ico.

Last attempt promise:

Verified the other server settings? .NET 4.0 with integrated pipeline?
And the web.config <system.webserver><handlers> section as to the wildcard mappings?

We're still running IIS 6 on windows server 2003 but it is configured to run .net 4.0. And my  <system.webserver><handlers> section is identical to what you posted.

Ah IIS6... Hope this link helps:
www.sitefinity.com/.../sf-5-0-iis6-issues

I've read this article. I had the same problem with css and js files not loading several months back so a http handler was added to the web.config. I had already tried adding *.ico to it but it didn't make any difference.

Hi Jeff,

Basically, the only reason for this error is the known issue, when running Sitefinity 5.x on IIS6, described in the previously linked article. Is ti possible to share with us the webconfig file, specifically the <httpHandlers> section so we can get a better understanding of your project setup.

Regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

Here's my web.config

Hey Victor, does anything look out of the ordinary with my web.config?

Hi Jeff,

Your webconfig looks ok, however for the httphandlers section I would suggest to have separate entries for each static file handler, for example:

Remove the spaces from: