Favicons not showing up properly

Question

I have a favicon.ico located in my root. I have linked like this:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">

Some people in my office can see it any some people can't. When I rename the file and the link path I get 100% success. When I change it back to favicon.ico some people see it and some people don't. It is totally unpredictable.

Is there anything unique to favicon's that would make this not work correctly?

Answer 1

I had no problem with the default site. I instead had problems with links on the same site. The favicon did not show up on links

When I tried to access the favicon in the browser developer it showed permission denied.

I changed the permissions on the server and it worked on links.

Answer 2

In my experience you need both of this definitions.

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

Answer 3

Does:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

Work?

Answer 4

Are you asking how to force a favicon refresh?