Creating favicon.ico on Unix machines

Posted by Antonin AMAND Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:27:00 GMT

Favicon are little icons that you can see in your browser before URL address.

To create this icons on unix-likes proceed as follow.

Open your favourite Image manipulator program, for me It will be The GIMP.

Create a 16×16 px PNG, and optionally a 32×32 px PNG.

Install png2ico from sources, package or compile it via darwinports.

For OS X with darwinports :

$ sudo port install png2ico

and create your favicon file :

$ png2ico favicon.ico favicon16.png favicon32.png

Now that you have your favicon file, just put it in your web server root directory.

You can had the following for IE compatibily in your web pages :


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