Re: django and favicon.ico

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:

On 5/08/2013 4:22am, Tundebabzy wrote:

Hi,
Is there any documentation on how django behaves during a GET
/favicon.ico? In my django 1.4.5 installation with runserver, GET
/favicon.ico redirects to /media/img/favicon; on OpenShift, it redirects
to /media/favicon.ico.

It is a static image no different than any other except that convention says it needs to be in the root of your site.

Yeah I agree. I don't know if it was some kind of cache thingy but I noticed that GET /favicon.ico kept on redirecting to /media/img/favicon.ico on runserver. Therefore in my urls.py, I had to catch a url pattern like r'^media/img/favicon\.ico$' then redirect it to '/static/img/favicon.ico' because r'^favicon.ico$' would throw a 404. However after a system reboot, GET /favicon.ico is what it is. Thanks sir.

In production, Apache has /favicon.ico redirecting to where I actually keep it - which is with other static images. It really isn't a Django thing at all. I haven't even thought about trying to get Django dev server to display it. Doesn't seem worthwhile.

Same thing applies to robots.txt

My googlefu has failed me.

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