Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[Sadeep Madurange]

Dear list,

I installed cgit on an OpenBSD server. Everything went well except for
the favicon. I placed my favicon in /var/www/cgit (chroot) directory
with the following permissions:

-rw-r--r--  1 www  daemon  408142 Oct  5 11:16 favicon.ico

In cgitrc, I have 'favicon=/favicon.ico'. However, the request in the
browser to get the favicon is failing with 404 error.

-- 
Sadeep W. Don
PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

Re: Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[Alfred Bühler]

On 2025-10-05 13:50, Sadeep Madurange wrote:
> -rw-r--r--  1 www  daemon  408142 Oct  5 11:16 favicon.ico
Maybe a 400k favicon might be too large?

Re: Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[Sadeep Madurange]

On 2025-10-05 14:57:08, Alfred Bühler wrote:
> On 2025-10-05 13:50, Sadeep Madurange wrote:
> > -rw-r--r--  1 www  daemon  408142 Oct  5 11:16 favicon.ico
> Maybe a 400k favicon might be too large?

Tried with a 16x16 one. That didn't work either:
-rw-r--r--  1 www  daemon   1150 Oct  5 13:13 favicon.ico

-- 
Sadeep W. Don
PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

Re: Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[Alfred Bühler]

May I assume you tried without that favicon spec in cgitrc?
Here it works out of the box.

Re: Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[Sadeep Madurange]

On 2025-10-05 16:09:43, Alfred Bühler wrote:
> May I assume you tried without that favicon spec in cgitrc?
> Here it works out of the box.

Yes, I tried commenting out the favicon setting to no avail. My complete
cgitrc file now is:

cache-size=1000
clone-url=git@git.asciimx.com:/repos/$CGIT_REPO_URL
footer=/conf/cgit.footer
css=/cgit.css
enable-index-owner=0
enable-http-clone=0
enable-index-links=0
enable-commit-graph=1
enable-log-filecount=1
enable-log-linecount=1
branch-sort=age
# favicon=/favicon.ico
max-stats=quarter
root-title=ASCIIMX Repositories 
root-desc=My description
snapshots=tar.gz

mimetype.gif=image/gif
mimetype.html=text/html
mimetype.jpg=image/jpeg
mimetype.jpeg=image/jpeg
mimetype.pdf=application/pdf
mimetype.png=image/png
mimetype.svg=image/svg+xml

readme=:README
virtual-root=/
scan-path=/htdocs/src

repo.snapshots=0
repo.enable-log-linecount=0
repo.max-stats=month

-- 
Sadeep W. Don
PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

Re: Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[W. D. Sadeep]

On 2025-10-05 22:49:07, Sadeep Madurange wrote:
> On 2025-10-05 16:09:43, Alfred Bühler wrote:
> > May I assume you tried without that favicon spec in cgitrc?
> > Here it works out of the box.
> 
> Yes, I tried commenting out the favicon setting to no avail.

Turned out this was a misconfiguration in my web server config. I'd
forgotten to add the following to serve the favicon.

location "/favicon.ico" {
    root "/cgit"
    no fastcgi
}

Sorry for the noise.

-- 
W. D. Sadeep 
PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

Re: Can't get the favicon to work on OpenBSD

[Alfred Bühler]

On 2025-10-08 15:46, W. D. Sadeep wrote:
> Sorry for the noise.

No problem, thanks for posting your solution.