Unable to resolve the request "favicon.ico"

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
#1

Hi ladies and gents,

I am constantly getting the bellow error. Can someone share if this is seen before and what I need to do to prevent it from happening or at least ideas to investigate the root cause. This is filling my logs constantly.




2011/05/23 02:26:39 [error] [exception.CHttpException.404] exception 'CHttpException' with message 'Unable to resolve the request "favicon.ico".' in /framework/web/CWebApplication.php:332

Stack trace:

#0 /framework/web/CWebApplication.php(121): CWebApplication->runController('favicon.ico')

#1 /framework/base/CApplication.php(155): CWebApplication->processRequest()

#2 domainname.com/index.php(18): CApplication->run()

#3 {main} REQUEST_URI=/favicon.ico

Cheers,

bettor

#2

Are you sure that you have a file favicon.ico in your root application directory and that .htaccess is configured properly?

.htaccess should be configured to redirect to index.php only if the file or directory requested doesn’t exist.

#3

Your browser looks for the “favicon.ico” file… you can create a file with that name of 0 bytes so that you don’t get this error anymore…

More info about favicon.ico:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml

#4

Thanks for your replies. I know what favicon is I just don’t understand how come none of my other yii websites have this and its just my latest project that is picking these up so I was wondering if I’ve done smth wrong.

I think I will just create the file. If complications occure I will seek help again. Thanks again for your feedback

#5

Firefox is paranoid with this favicon.ico, he looks for favicon at any level (even controller/view/favicon.ico).

You can manage with .htaccess, redirecting any request for favicon.ico to the correct favicon.

#6

If using Apache, this can be added to .htaccess:


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/favicon.ico$

If using IIS, this is a fragment sample of what can be used in web.config:


<rewrite>

  <rules>

    <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">

      <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />

      <conditions>

        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />

        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />

        <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/favicon.ico$" ignoreCase="false" />

      </conditions>

      <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?q={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />

    </rule>

  </rules>

</rewrite>

IIS will need the URL Rewrite extension if not already installed.

#7

The favicon and robots errors were annoying me to death, especially in the runtime/application.log file. Also these requests register false site access if I’m logging the visits.

I’ve found a very simple and effective cure. Anyway I declared the Controller’s init() method, so I’ve put a small code here.

In protected/components/controller.php:




...


public function init() {

	// filter out garbage requests

	$uri = Yii::app()->request->requestUri;

	if (strpos($uri, 'favicon') || strpos($uri, 'robots'))

		Yii::app()->end();

	// do the other initialization stuff

	...

}

...

Be careful, you must edit the above code if you have a controller or action named ‘favicon’ or ‘robots’.

#8

Nice.

I think I could use this for those annoying 'phpMyAdmin-X.X.X/scripts/setup.php’s.

[EDIT]

No, I could not.

Such requests will end in 404 in framework code before they reach this one.

#9

I’m having similar issue.

I have defined where my favicon.ico resides but still getting this error.

I’m using themes:


<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php echo  Yii::app()->theme->baseUrl; ?>/images/favicon.ico" />

And in my themes/themename/images/favicon.ico i have put the file.




/var/www/vhosts/7/142623/webspace/httpdocs/yii-1.1.13.e9e4a0/framework/web/CWebApplication.php:286

Stack trace:

#0

/var/www/vhosts/7/142623/webspace/httpdocs/yii-1.1.13.e9e4a0/framework/web/CWebApplication.php(141):

CWebApplication->runController('favicon.ico')

#1

/var/www/vhosts/7/142623/webspace/httpdocs/yii-1.1.13.e9e4a0/framework/base/CApplication.php(169):

CWebApplication->processRequest()

#2

/var/www/vhosts/7/142623/webspace/httpdocs/xxxxxxx/index.php(13):

CApplication->run()

#3 {main}

REQUEST_URI=/favicon.ico