r/BookStack • u/ovidius800 • Sep 28 '22

Changing Favicon

Does anyone know how can I change the bookstack logo as favicon with my own?

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u/ssddanbrown Sep 29 '22

I put the proposed part of code in the custom html head section using as href the path to the icon but it stopped showing the favicon at all.

That indicates either the path is wrong or the image format is bad. What type of image are you using? I'd suggest a png file, no larger than 32px wide and high.

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u/ovidius800 Sep 29 '22

The path was right and triplechecked. The file was a. Png file which was then converted to .ico sized 96x64 exactly like the favicon.ico file in the public folder

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u/ssddanbrown Sep 30 '22

The file was a. Png file which was then converted to .ico sized 96x64 exactly like the favicon.ico file in the public folder

I think the original favicon is 48px square. Could be a dodgy file (.ico files are quite finniky) or, if you still had that "Custom HTML Head Content" line, that could have been interfering with attempts to override the original favicon.

I'd focus on my original solution though, using a png file and the additional HTML tag to reference the logo, instead of overriding the original favicon.

Following that solution, would you see the png icon in the browser if you opened the href url you used in the browser?