How to add favicon.ico in ASP.NET site

Question

The solution structure of my application is:

Now I am in Login.aspx and I am willing to add favicon.ico, placed in the root, in that page.

What I am doing is:

<link id="Link1" runat="server" rel="shortcut icon" href="../favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />  
<link id="Link2" runat="server" rel="icon" href="../favicon.ico" type="image/ico" /> 

Also I have tried:

<link id="Link1" runat="server" rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />  
<link id="Link2" runat="server" rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/ico" /> 

But these aren't working.

I have cleared the browser cache but no luck.

What will be the path to the favicon.ico from:

• Login.aspx
• Site.master

Thank you.

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The login page's URL: http://localhost:2873/Pages/Login.aspx and the favicon.ico's URL: http://localhost:2873/favicon.ico.

I am unable to see the favicon.ico after changing my code as:

<link id="Link1" rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />  
<link id="Link2" rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/ico" />

Answer 1

I have the same issue. My url is as below

http://somesite/someapplication

Below doesnot work

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" />

I got it to work like below

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/someapplication/favicon.ico" />

Answer 2

/favicon.ico

might do the trick
I have tried this on my sample website

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="~/ows.ico" />

Try this one in your site put the link in MasterPage,It works :)

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="~/favicon.ico" />

I have tested in ,
FireFox.

Chrome.

Opera.

Some troubleshoots:
1. Check if your favicon is accessible (correct url) ,goto view source and click on the favicon link
2. Full refresh your browser by Ctrl+F5 every time you make changes.
3. Try searching from SO you may find your related problem here.

Some Links to help you out:
Serving favicon.ico in ASP.NET MVC
Favicon Not Showing
Why is favicon not visible

Answer 3

    <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="~/favicon.ico" />

This worked for me. If anyone is troubleshooting while reading this - I found issues when my favicon.ico was not nested in the root folder. I had mine in the Resources folder and was struggling at that point.

Thanks!