Can't change favicon.ico

Gregary Boyles — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:48:42 +0000

Hi folks.
I am not sure if this is the right thread for this question...

On here I have multiple website hosted in sperate top level folders.

https://www.gjb.au/fomop

And...

https://www.gjb.au/millhouse

Among others.

If you visit https://www.gjb.au/fomop you will notice favicon.ico is working fine. It is located at https://www.gjb.au/fomop/favicon.ico

If you visit https://www.gjb.au/millhouse you will notice that favicon.ico is not working despite that file being located at https://www.gjb.au/millhouse/favicon.ico. If you type that specific URL in then the image file comes up just fone.

In both home pages I have these two lines of code:

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

It seems both edge and chrome are looking for favicon.ico at https://www.gjb.au for https://www.gjb.au/millhouse only.

They are like a pitbull with a bone, and I am unable to figure out WHY they are specifically looking for favicon.ico there. But not in the case of https://www.gjb.au/fomop.

I have tried EVERYTHING that google has suggested.

1) Those two lines of html code.
2) Extra hard refresh of the page with chrome developer tools open.
3) Manual clearing of chrome's cached files and cookies.
4) Manual clearing of chromes favicon database in its windows system folder.

Nothing works. I can't work out what is different about the two websites, https://www.gjb.au/fomop and https://www.gjb.au/millhouse, that is causing this behavior.

DEV Community: Gregary Boyles

Can't change favicon.ico