Favicon not displaying

[mabel_minn]

Hello,
I've copied favicon.ico into the public_html folder (top level on web server) and also into the squirrelcart folder, but IE and Firefox are not automatically picking it up. I know it's there, as I can navigate to it at https://www.groundgreentea.com/favicon.ico.

Am I putting it in the wrong place to work with Squirrelcart, or do I need to add a LINK tag to the HEAD section to specifically callout the favicon.ico file? And if so, is there a simple way to get this code added to the head section of each store page?

Thanks for your help!

[Jamie]

Squirrelcart doesn't have anything built in that relates to favicons. If you put a favicon.ico file in the root of your site, it should be detected. I visited your site in Firefox 7 and IE 9, and its loading it fine for me for both browsers.

However, you have something strange setup with regards to SSL. When I visit any regular non secure page via a "http" URL, your browser is performing a redirect to "https", most likely via an htaccess file modification. Using a secure URL for every page load is overkill in my opinion. Its adding encryption where its not needed.

Squirrelcart will switch to your secure URL automatically when needed - during login, account creation/modification, checkout, etc... To make that happen, you just need to update the $site_secure_root variable in your config file. It looks like you did that, but set it to a shared SSL URL that does not match the URL you are redirecting every non secure page to.

[mabel_minn]

Thank you! We are seeing the favicon now too, consistently in Firefox and intermittently in IE. I think we'll leave it at that.

Thanks also for the addl comments about the SSL setup. The setup was done by the web hosting company. We'll followup on this.