Do I need to have a favicon on my site? How do I get rid of the errors I see in my apache log?

Question

I keep seeing favicon warnings in my apache log. How do I get rid of those? Do I have to have a favicon for my site?

Answer 1

Webbrowsers use this to display the image you see in your favorites as well as the icon of your tab. e.g. when you go to stackoverflow the cool icon you see in the tab as shown : is automatically fetched by my browser (chrome) using the url : https://stackoverflow.com/favicon.ico . Its pretty standard so in case you don't want it in your log you should put some icon and rename it as favicon.ico in the httpdocs.