Hi all, I’m managing a Discourse multisite setup with many sites on the same server. For branding consistency, I want to use .ico favicons (32x32) for both the main job sites and their forums. I’ve uploaded the same .ico favicon to both the main sites and forums — however, when I check Google sear…

For Discourse sites, the icon is determined by page contents (a link element in head): ○ → curl -s https://forum.getnursingjobs.com/ | htmlq 'link[rel=icon]' <link href="https://forum.getnursingjobs.com/uploads/default/optimized/1X/931ed11ccda2b78d1b427939901795ee6d2d4b50_2_32x32.png" rel="icon" ty…

Still looking for help or advice. :eyes: Thanks!

It works correctly on our hosting. Can you post the actual site hostnames, indicating which is the multisite root and which is the multisite guest so we can look?

@supermathie Thank you for your response! I appreciate the suggestion and the clarification on the root and guest sites. multisite root is forum.getnursingjobs.com and one of guest site is forum.getchefjobs.com Any suggestion would be

Thank you so much for the detailed and thorough analysis, @supermathie . I really appreciate you taking the time to look into this and provide such a clear explanation. Your breakdown was very helpful.

How to use .ico favicons correctly in Discourse multisite? Google shows different favicons for main site and forum despite same upload

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Jacob_Peebles (Jacob Peebles) July 3, 2025, 1:24pm 2

Good question, I have this issue as well!

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How to use .ico favicons correctly in Discourse multisite? Google shows different favicons for main site and forum despite same upload

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