Django favicon.ico in development?
The easiest way would be to just put it in your static directory with your other static media, then specify its location in your html:
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'images/favicon.ico' %}"/>
My old answer was:
You can set up an entry in your urls.py
and just check if debug
is true. This would keep it from being served in production. I think you can just do similar to static media.
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^favicon.ico$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/favicon'}),
)
You also could just serve the favicon from your view.:
from django.http import HttpResponse
def my_image(request):
image_data = open("/home/moneyman/public_html/media/img/favicon.ico", "rb").read()
return HttpResponse(image_data, content_type="image/png")
This worked for me:
from django.conf.urls.static import static
...
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(r'/favicon.ico', document_root='static/favicon.ico')