Favicon.ico for Cacti Installations

streaker69 · Last edited by streaker69 on Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:10 am; edited 5 times in total

Just to make your installation a little more custom I converted the Cacti cactus from the main cacti website into a favicon.ico and figured out what needed to be done to have cacti serve it up. I'm not exactly sure if all the steps below are actually needed since I'm not really that well versed in *nix, but it's what I had to do to make it work under the CactiEZ installation.

Step 1: Download and unzip the Attached favicon.zip file and put the favicon.ico in the root of your cacti installation. For me that's: /var/www/html

Step 2: chown -R apache:apache favicon.ico

Step 3: chmod 644 favicon.ico

Step 4: Edit your httpd.conf file with this line: AddType image/x-icon .ico

Step 5: Edit the top_header.php and the top_graph_header.php right below the <head> tag with the following line:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

This is now working for me under all my plugins, except for Mactrack, I don't know why that one isn't working.

rony · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:49 am Post subject:

Step 3 is not needed.... And not suggest making anything executable that does not need to be executable.

streaker69 · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

rony · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:03 am Post subject:

I would change step 3 to "chmod 644 favicon.ico".

Also, you need to edit top_header.php and top_graph_header.php.

streaker69 · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:07 am Post subject:

streaker69 · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:52 am Post subject:

I think I've resolved most of the issues. Revised instructions posted in the original post.

streaker69 · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:01 am Post subject:

If you're using MacTrack, you'll need to edit the top_mactrack_header.php file located in /plugins/macktrack/include right below the <head> tag with this line:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

bdiez · Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Spain

Hello.

I just performed some minor art to add transparency to the cacti icon borders. Tested under Apache on MS, IIS on MS and Apache on Ubuntu linux, works ok for me using Firefox or IExplorer browsers.

I suggest you to also add the line to the "auth_login.php" file in the main cacti directory (always inside the <head> section).

P.S. My icon is named "cacti.ico" so rename in to "favicon.ico" if preferred. Favicon.ico is a generic name for the "main icon" of a web site, so using it may make unnecessary to edit the auth_login.php file.

Regards,
Bernardo.

N3NCY · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject:

I see Fav Icon is now built in to 0.8.7
Nice work everyone!