Hi guys.
I searched the forum for information on the favicon but couldn't find what I need.
I have an account with my hosting provider since a few years ago. I decided to open a new business account with a dedicated IP address for the use of my new shop created with Coffecup softwares.
As soon as my hosting company set up the SSL certificate for me and other things I went to my account and notice it has the favicon of the other personal account. I hadn't even upload any files to the account. I thought this will go away as soon I uploaded the files. Didn't happen like that.
I have created my shop with Coffeecup Shopping Cart (Isn't complete yet but it is working find so far) and created a front page to add other links that Coffeecup Designer Pro doesn't allow me to.
I have created and uploaded the favicon to my front page and it shows perfectly fine in Opera and Firefox (not in IE but I already found a post in the forum to try to fix it) The problem is that it doesn't show in the shop pages I guess I have to do the same thing I did of adding the favicon code to the front page. My question is to what page and exactly where I add this? I tried the "index.php" and the code messed up the page.
I contacted my hosting provider and they told me I have to change the code in the pages to stop showing the favicon of the other account but I have never added no code to any Coffeecup pages other that the frontpage I created just now.
Could you guys tell me what am I doing wrong?
Thank you so much.
I'm using Core FTP to upload the file to my root foulder
I use Windows Vista
I use Opera and Firefox
http://emomania.com = front page
http://emomania.com/shop/index.php = shop
Vickyniki
Registered User
22 posts
Per
Senior Advisor
1,850 posts
Browsers will look for the file favicon.ico in the server directory where your page files are located, or in the root directory.
For your shop, the favicon file should be placed in: http://emomania.com/shop/favicon.ico
For good measure
, you may also want to place it in: http://emomania.com/favicon.ico
As for the "old" favicon that showed up unexpectedly, the browsers are probably picking up a favico.ico in the true root directory of your server file structure. I believe the placement as per above will override the old one.
For your shop, the favicon file should be placed in: http://emomania.com/shop/favicon.ico
For good measure
, you may also want to place it in: http://emomania.com/favicon.icoAs for the "old" favicon that showed up unexpectedly, the browsers are probably picking up a favico.ico in the true root directory of your server file structure. I believe the placement as per above will override the old one.
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
the code for the favicon will go at the top of your HTML pages in the same area that your CSS page link goes such as this example:
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="animated_favicon1.gif" >
</head>
making sure of course that you change the href="" line to point to where your favicon actually is. Mine is an animated one at the moment on my shop so I have both the 2 lines above on mine.
Hope that helps
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" type="image/gif" href="animated_favicon1.gif" >
</head>
making sure of course that you change the href="" line to point to where your favicon actually is. Mine is an animated one at the moment on my shop so I have both the 2 lines above on mine.
Hope that helps
Vickyniki
Registered User
22 posts
Thank you Per and Wolverana. I already uploaded the file to the shop foulder but witch one is the html file. Is it the one name home.xml? I can't find any page of html in my shop foulder.
Sorry I'm bothering you guys with this. I bet this is something very simple for the big guys like you, but it gets me that I did it perfectly in my front page but I can't find the home page file of my shop.
Thanks again and HAPPY THANKS GIVING.
Sorry I'm bothering you guys with this. I bet this is something very simple for the big guys like you, but it gets me that I did it perfectly in my front page but I can't find the home page file of my shop.
Thanks again and HAPPY THANKS GIVING.
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Hiya Vicky,
You should have an "index.html" or "index.htm" file somewhere in the root directory of your site.
You should have an "index.html" or "index.htm" file somewhere in the root directory of your site.
Vickyniki
Registered User
22 posts
Yes, you are wright. It is the one I created for my front page. When I uploaded the shop files with the Coffecup Shopping Cart Creator it didn't uploaded a html or htm file only uploaded xml and php files.
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Right, there may be a way to do this for the shop pages and I need to do this myself too. The pages I'm talking about are the pages that are created from either the Visual Site Designer or the HTML Editor, but not the shop pages. We'll have to get the info on how to do this with the shop pages too, and hopefully there will be some kind of setting for this in the Pro version so we don't have to add them manually. Not sure though.
Vickyniki
Registered User
22 posts
I notice you also have your shop files separate from the html like I do. So you just uploaded the favicon to your root foulder and added the code to your html file like I already did, right? And the favicon is showing in your shop address bar http://accessoriesoftheworld.com/shop/index.php but in my case it still showing the favicon from my other acount.
I don't know too much about servers but I think if I have a different dedicated IP address for each of my account they shouldn't be showing the same favicon, right?
Thanks again.
I don't know too much about servers but I think if I have a different dedicated IP address for each of my account they shouldn't be showing the same favicon, right?
Thanks again.
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
well if they are on different server addresses for the files as well as the domains then no it shouldn't be the same if you have different ones setup. You might have a problem with the files having been sent to the wrong server maybe? Not sure on that part Vicky.
After I thought about it I realized I had already done it, my bad sorry that I forgot, I'm on vacation so my brain isn't thinking on all this stuff without having my own computer in front of me lol. I got the info from this thread for adding it to the shop pages:
https://www.coffeecup.com/forums/coffee … ks/?page=3
a little over half way down the page on this one is the shop info.
After I thought about it I realized I had already done it, my bad sorry that I forgot, I'm on vacation so my brain isn't thinking on all this stuff without having my own computer in front of me lol. I got the info from this thread for adding it to the shop pages:
https://www.coffeecup.com/forums/coffee … ks/?page=3
a little over half way down the page on this one is the shop info.
Vickyniki
Registered User
22 posts
Thank you very much wolverana, I will take a look. And don't worry, I'm thankful enough with you listening where ever you are. Have a nice vacation and Happy Thanks Giving Day.
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