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Mike the Frog favicon...won't go away...

As suggested in the title, I can't seem to get rid of the Mike the Frog favicon I used in the PHP course. Any page I open using Apache, Mike is proudly there in the tab. Funny thing is, I have since changed my file structure so the 'shirts4mike' website won't load.

Does anyone have a suggestion where I might find where Mike is coming from? Has anyone else experienced this?

Yours, Frogged in Ontario

5 Answers

It sounds like you made the web-site using the treehouse course, in that case you got the favicon from treehouse somehow. Hope you can fix it.

Yours truly, Caleb

Hi Aaron,

The favicon is usually at the root folder of your website. Have a look here on how it works.

This is exactly what happened to me. I tried to delete all my treehouse files, uninstall/reinstall xampp but it's still there!!! I cannot find the favicon.ico frog on my pc anywhere. Still looking for a solution.

I exterminated this frog after fighting with his ghost for an hour tonight.

I deleted everything related to the Shirts 4 Mike project awhile back and just dealt with him creeping into my other projects until tonight when I started working with local Wordpress development. I felt that if he wasn't going to pay rent then it was time for him to move on, but he felt differently about the matter.

I reinstalled XAMPP, but there he was. I shut Chrome down and deleted the favicon and favicon-journal files in my Chrome directory, which worked to erase him from localhost... until I clicked on the new Wordpress folder. He must have climbed through the window because there he was, just sitting... staring... mocking my attempts to exercise him from my machine.

Finally I created a new favicon file, just a simple 32 by 32 ico file using an image I felt was more suitable for the work I intend to be doing moving forward. I put the new favicon.ico file into my htdocs folder and shut Chrome down completely. Restarting Chrome, I went to localhost and heard a loud shriek followed by threats about this not being over and then he was gone. The new icon was in place and the voyeuristic frog has finally been exiled.

So it seems that simply deleting a favicon isn't enough. If there isn't a new favicon to take the place of the one that has been deleted, the deleted favicon returns to haunt its deleter. Hopefully this information spares others from suffering through the same grisly ordeal.

I ultimately ended up replacing him too, that was the only way to get rid of the varmit! I didn't really want an icon on the tab but I just couldn't stand looking at his smug face every time I reloaded. Be gone Mike the Frog, never to return!