Favicon.ico

[Bengt Wällstedt]

Hi!

We have a custom theme for things like colours and selectidp-links, the theme works exactly as it should. One thing remains unsolved, though: the favicon.ico. No matter how we try to pick the favicon.ico from the theme's /public/assets directory it just won't work and the default favicon.ico, the fish with bubbles, is shown on the browser tab.We could easily replace the favicon.ico where it is, in /var/simplesamlphp/public/assets/base/icons/ but we'd rather keep all the theming wthin the theme  We have tried a lot, any suggestion how to from within the theme make SimpleSAMLphp pick up the favicin.ico there instead of default location would be much appreciated!

Kind regards

Bengt Wällstedt

[Peter Schober]

Bengt Wällstedt <bengt.w...@gmail.com> [2026-03-08 23:49 CET]:

> No matter how we try to pick the favicon.ico from the theme's
> /public/assets directory it just won't work and the default
> favicon.ico, the fish with bubbles, is shown on the browser tab.

You don't provide any detaiks but I don't see how SimpleSAMLphp could
prevent you from linking to a different file altogether?

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="your/path/to/someimage.png">

> We could easily replace the favicon.ico where it is, in
> /var/simplesamlphp/public/assets/base/icons/ but we'd rather keep
> all the theming wthin the theme

While not stricly "witin the theme" you could also redirect (or alias
or proxy) from /favicon.ico to your own version in the web server
configuration: That still leaves the SimpleSAMLphp distribution
unmodified and moves this change into server configuration territory.

HTH,
-peter