Forum:Flavicon won't appear after upload

I have made repeated attempts to upload a 16 x 16 flavicon with the filename "flavicon.ico" to my wikia. The problem is that it show up as being empty, no kbs nothing. Help, Please. Here is the link to the. Avazina 17:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The favicon is shown to me. Maybe you need to clean your browser's cache. Try to open the page with other browser (that won't be affected by the caching issue). --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -@WikiDex 18:16, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't see how that is possible when I can't. I've tried 2 different browsers, done a soft refresh and a hard refresh (Ctrl f5), also I've restarted my computer and it still doesn't show up. Does the Favicon you see have the letters "CSA" in red on a blue background? If you don't see that, then you don't see the favicon I've been trying to upload for 2 days.Avazina 19:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I see exactly the favicon you are describing. Maybe there's no only your browser's cache, but some proxy/cache servers between your computer and the wikia servers. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -@WikiDex 19:39, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Well I don't know what to do about that, if that is the problem, because I've never heard of any such issue. I've done all I know to do and yet I still don't see the image. Does anybody have any suggestions? Please? Avazina 22:45, 29 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Wait. When we changed the Favicon (and the logo) for the Traveller wiki, it took several hours for both to work it's way through the various caches and show up. I don't understand it all either, except I know than the Wikia server is a whole farm of caching servers that takes between two and eight hours before images shows up properly. Tjoneslo 23:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, its been more than 8 hours now and it still hasn't shown up as it is supposed to. This is so frustrating. :( Avazina 15:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the problem might be for you but I can clearly see the favicon and maybe the problem might lie with your browser settings or its cache memory. Try pressing F5 if you are using  "Internet Explorer" to refresh Browser or  Ctrl+F5 if you are using "Firefox" to clear Browser cache memory .. -- Cometstyles 15:49, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Well I appreciate your help, but neither of those types of refresh worked. I stumbled across a "Clear Private Data" button in the options menu of my Firefox browser. After I hit that button the Favicon appeared as it should, but the page itself still doesn't show it, not sure why. At any rate I'm not going to worry about that. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!!!!!!! Avazina 19:53, 30 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Some browsers don't store the favicon in the general cache (some apparently store it in with the bookmarks, which was the original intent of a favicon- for your "favorites" list) and nothing short of a long wait will clear it. One trick that often works for me, is to take the location of the favicon,, and put it in a local html file, like say c:\temp\ico.htm thusly:


 * And then load that html file in my browser, and do a hard refresh. In this manner, it gets treated like a cache file instead of a bookmarklet for some browsers. --Splarka (talk) &lt;Staff&gt; 22:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)