Favicon: where?

[jumborex]

I've found this old discussion:

Perhaps because the image is not linked as it is on the main site:

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<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://www.phpbb.com/favicon.ico">

In IE (evil), you'll have to bookmark the page first. Then you'll see it in the address bar aswell.

This is the way I knew also, for making appear the little image near the tab, or in the address bar of the browser. Fine: all implementations of phpBB3 show their choice of favicon.
Problem is, that I cannot implement it in my test site. I made it the way ElbertF describe here. With phpBB2, installing my favicon link into the header part of overall_header.tpl (if I remember the name), inside the style directories.
Now, here in prosilver --> template we have this overall_header.html.
Not working! Where do I made wrong?

[Highway of Life]

If you simply upload favicon.ico to your webroot directory, it should just appear.
No need to put it in the meta tags of the overall_header.html, though it’s possible the favicon.ico won’t show up in some browsers (IE -- unsure) unless you do put it in the header.
But in Firefox and Safari, it does work.

For the templates, simply putting that bit of code in the header, you’ll need to refresh the template cache for it to actually show up.
Then check view source to be sure.

Also make sure your favicon has the .ico extension.

[jumborex]

[...] you’ll need to refresh the template cache for it to actually show up. [...]

Right Highway! Thanks, as usual! You need refresh the cache...

[Handyman]

and your browser cache as well.

[numediaweb]

first of all You should, make an icon file called 'favicon.ico' of 16 x 16 pixels which will be the icon used in the site adress bar. Upload it into the images directory of phpBB 3.

Then go to admin cp and edit the overall_header template;

find

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{PAGE_TITLE}</title>

and after it add

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

that's all, it works for me, so it will work for you!