Question

I put a favicon into our TWiki implementation on Sourceforge and it is appearing in our WebStatistics page. Neat but not entirely intended. Is it possible to fix this?

• http://nebuladevice.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Nebula/WebStatistics

By the by, I modified one of the template files to have <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="favicon.ico"> in order for the favicon to work for Mozilla users.

• TWiki version: 20011201
• Perl version: v5.6.1
• Web server & version: Apache, whatever is on Sourceforge
• Server OS: Linux
• Web browser & version: All of them
• Client OS: All of them

-- LingLo - 18 Dec 2002

Answer

Where did you place your favicon.ico file? I have one on a TWiki site but it doesn't appear in the statistics, and in fact I can't work out how it could, as it would be served by Apache rather than by the TWiki CGI scripts, which are the only ones that write to the log*.txt files used for WebStatistics. Try relocating the favicon.ico to the /pub directory, with a suitable /twiki/pub/favicon.ico type URL.

It could also be due to the base href included in the HTML files - using "/favicon.ico" (i.e. an absolute URL) should fix this - otherwise it's possible that the favicon.ico is interpreted as a topic name perhaps. Perhaps SourceForge is doing something odd with redirects or Apache URL rewriting, as I found the back button didn't work too well when looking for your /favicon.ico file. Rather odd...

-- RichardDonkin - 22 Dec 2002

Response

Turns out it's the href="favicon.ico" bit. Shoulda been "/favicon.ico" as the browser ends up looking for favicon.ico files in the same level as the url which leads to the TWiki receiving /twiki/view/favicon.ico requests. Doh! Thank you for your help!

-- LingLo - 26 Dec 2002

Glad it worked - you might like to have a look at the upcoming InternationalisationEnhancements, which enable use of Danish accented characters in WikiWords, as well as other things such as basic JapaneseAndChineseSupport.

-- RichardDonkin - 27 Dec 2002

It looks like that the statistics script needs to be updated. It should not include topics that do not exist. Here is a sample entry from TWiki.org:

| 18 Dec 2002 - 01:00 | Main.TWikiGuest | view | Support.favicon.ico |  (not exist) | 213.208.105.215 |

The script should ignore lines that have a (not exist) flag. BTW, there are similar entries if a user assumes that the "Go" box is a search box:

| 01 Dec 2002 - 19:51 | Main.TWikiGuest | view | Sandbox.jboss |  (not exist) | 216.136.171.252 |

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Dec 2002

Now fixed in TWikiAlphaRelease, see CVS:bin/statistics - this also helps prevent accesses to topics with I18N names via UTF8-encoded URLs (not yet supported by TWiki even in alpha) from creating such statistics entries (see InternationalisationEnhancements#Browser_setup to avoid using such URLs).

-- RichardDonkin - 31 Dec 2002

And at TWiki.org.

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Dec 2002