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Asked: 2026-05-13T08:55:33+00:00

I have a asp.net mvc web application an it uses some favicon.ico. Now when

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I have a asp.net mvc web application an it uses some favicon.ico. Now when I move it to IIS 7, as an application, the favicon stops being presented even when I try to enter the full address to the favicon. The icon is still there; the full address works in the browser to find the icon alone, but not within the applications master page. The code is standard and same as on some others of my apps, but there it works.

<head runat="server">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" /></title>
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../Content/Images/favicon.ico" />
    <link href="../../Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="../../Scripts/Site.js"></script>
</head>

Any ideas why this might be?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If I remember correctly, in Internet Explorer, the favicon needs an absolute URL.
    If that doesn’t help:

    • Maybe IIS serves the icon file with the wrong content type? I think the correct one is image/vnd.microsoft.icon. See this page for a way to set up the content type in IIS 7.
    • There are a number of additional hints on this page
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