How do I replace the Magento favicon?

Question

I'm trying to replace the Magento favicon, but I can't seem to find it. Where is it?

Answer 1

• First point, check the source of your front page
  • if you found a meta like this: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="a/path/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> just change the favicon in the named path
• Else, browsers try to get the favicon to the root of your website so:
  • either you put a file favicon.ico at this place
  • or you put a meta like above with the good path to your favicon.

Answer 2

The easiest way is to add the favicon meta tag to your theme's header and point it to the favicon in your root. A more complex way (I think) is replacing the favicon in /skin/frontend/theme/interface/favicon.ico, but I never had any success with that method.

Answer 3

You can also consider using rewrite and completely bypass Magento:

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico$ /images/favicon.ico [L]