# Help! faviconHell!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036 "2004-07-27T23:38:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@mack\_johnson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mack_johnson)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/1 "2004-07-27T23:38:22Z")
hi people, i’ve tried all the tutorails i could find and i still can’t get my url icon to work. the tutorials i tried are done in html, is there a script for this?
mj
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/2 "2004-07-27T23:46:23Z")
just save it as favicon.ico in your root directory 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/3 "2004-07-27T23:59:44Z")
that’s what i’ve been doing, and i believe i made the icon right. i did it with photoshop and then put it through graphic converter x. but still not working, if that’s all you do then my icon must not be right. btw i’m using a mac.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/4 "2004-07-28T00:06:59Z")
did it work in ff?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/5 "2004-07-28T00:19:37Z")
i’m sorry, ff?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/6 "2004-07-28T00:23:08Z")
firefox most likely
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/7 "2004-07-28T00:45:10Z")
yep 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/8 "2004-07-28T00:47:19Z")
wow! it shows up in firefox, but not in safari or ie.
any thought on that?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/9 "2004-07-28T00:52:58Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/10 "2004-07-28T01:28:35Z")
bummer! looks like it’s not going to work in safari is there another way to empty the cache, besides the option under the safari menu?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/11 "2004-07-28T01:35:51Z")
don’t have safari so wouldn’t know, sorry 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/12 "2004-08-19T15:47:47Z")
I have been trying the same thing. Is there a way to test the icon by publishing the HTML site through Flash, without using an FTP? I just wanted to see if it worked, but I don’t have an actual site to upload it to. I do have Flash and I was trying to publish the file as an HTML, edit it in Notepad and wiew it that way. Is it possible?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/13 "2004-08-19T22:01:09Z")
Try a wimpy free hosting site for testing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/14 "2004-08-20T22:41:15Z")
or use apache for local testing 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/15 "2004-08-21T00:30:58Z")
Apache is not for noobs. I’d say just let it go. It’s not that big of a deal anyway, and most people don’t pay too much attention to it. If it works for you in FF, it should also work in IE.
Like bombingpixles said, try adding this to your \ tag:
**_\
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/16 "2004-08-21T00:35:38Z")
thread moved
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-faviconhell/59036/17 "2004-08-21T04:49:54Z")
I wouldn’t say that apache isn’t for noobs, 'em 2 series has a nice installer now to make it easier 😃
but if you want all the other stuff, it can take a bit of work, but nothing somebody can’t figure out on there own 😉