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I tried and tried but didn't find the spot to put the favicon.ico in for ElkArte.  O:-) Help is very appreciated!

Just send it to forum folder (where you have SSI.php). There is already default favicon (favicon.ico).

Okay, but there seem to be no changes. I cleaned the cache of ElkArte and my browser cache. But I can't see my favicon. Which favicon do you see at http://support.elkarte-hilfe.de ? Should be the one I attached here.

Favicons sometimes change after few days.

The browser probably looks for the:

<link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="196x196" href="http://support.elkarte-hilfe.de/themes/Blue/images/mobile.png" />

This is a "mobile-oriented" favicon, change that to an equivalent sized image and it should pick the one you want. ;)

You were right. Thank you.

/me thinks this is to document somewhere or put a field in the theme settings or general or something...

Its changed now. :p

I've been trying to get my favicon to work instead of the default ElkArte favicon. I have completely removed the ElkArte favicon.ico from my sites root folder and I have placed my own favicon.ico in the forum root folder. I have deleted the forum cache, I have deleted the cache on Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. I have rebooted my computer. No matter what I do all 3 browsers still show the ElkArt favicon.ico file which is nowhere within my sites folder. Any ideas on how to make this change. If I directly link to my custom favicon.ico file it shows my custom favicon but going anywhere using my forum links the ElkArte default favicon.ico file is being used.

This is the image link to my custom favicon.ico file: (http://www.b4print.com/favicon.ico)

See my reply #4 (http://www.elkarte.net/community/index.php?topic=1847.msg11566#msg11566). ;)
Same thing.
The favicon is defined in the template, line 174 of index.template.php:

	echo '
	<link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="196x196" href="' . $settings['images_url'] . '/mobile.png" />

either change that or remove the line.

Thank you. All is right with the world again. ;D

Sorry to bring up an old post but running into this as well, my question is what size should it be set too?

Never mind found it 16 x 16.

In the line I posted, there is an attribute: sizes="196x196"
You can either use that size (that is in pixels) or change it to whatever you want.

Small suggestion, I think mobile devices like to have images of 196px X 196px. ;)
But 16 will do for "normal" (desktop) browsers.

Still trying to get this to work, right now I have

<link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="196x196" href="' . $settings['images_url'] . 'http://alilnook.com/favicon.ico" />

am I doing something wrong.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://alilnook.com/favicon.ico" />

That worked thank you, I thought it be something like that but wasn't too sure.

I was thinking, is this really necessary for ElkArte? If it is not, why not just remove it in the future for easy favicon change.

Well, the easiest way to change the favicon would be to replace the "mobile.png" file with an equivalent one in the images directory, so that mobile devices will be happy too.

Well, that is one way of doing it though I prefer as simple as placing favicon.ico in EA root folder. ;)

That will (http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/) not play (http://realfavicongenerator.net/faq#.VREeyj3KlhE) very nicely (https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/touch-icons) with all the mobile stuff, but that's up to you. ;)