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…

Good question, I have this issue as well!

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.

Como usar favicons .ico corretamente no multisite do Discourse? O Google mostra favicons diferentes para o site principal e o fórum, apesar do mesmo upload

Suporte

emonunix (Emon Bhuiyan) 6 Julho , 2025 19:34 3

Ainda procurando ajuda ou conselhos.
Obrigado!

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