I don't have any particular axe to grind, but putting a favicon.ico in the documentroot would avoid the error log starting to fill from the outset. Also, for someone who had just installed their first ever server, it would give them a clue how to get their own icon to appear in the browser. This question comes up regularly.
On 14 October 2011 22:37, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On 10/14/2011 3:56 PM, Steve Swift wrote: > > It is surprising that the installation of apache does not install a > sample favicon.ico > > (the apache "feather", perhaps). > > Wouldn't happen. Take a look at the modern rendition of 'it worked'. > > <html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html> > > The arbitrary user installs a server, why should that be branded to > browsers as the ASF? It is that person's server. > > I suppose you could make a case for a transparent empty icon, though. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk
