Counterize strange URI

mickej
(@mickej)

18 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

I use Counterize and got ome hits that have URI:
“/blog/2006/02/17/something/wp-content /favicon.ico”

Why is that?

1st: I dont have a favicon.
2nd: Why trying to find a favicon there?

I also have som URIs that looks like this:
“blogg/wp-content/favicon.ico”

Seem tom look for the favicon at the right place, but why is that registered as a hit? Should it be like that?

Most “concerned” about the above one though.

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whooami
(@whooami)

18 years, 2 months ago

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Thread Starter mickej
(@mickej)

18 years, 2 months ago

Ahaaaaa… if someone put a post in his/her bookmarks it looks for the favicon.ico. Sure… But why does it look for it where it i not even supposed to be? I just tried it with my own IP, booth above occured.

whooami
(@whooami)

18 years, 2 months ago

good question 🙂 and I actually dont have an answer.

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

18 years, 2 months ago

I can’t see what whooami said… so I’m at risk of saying the same thing.

In your header, do you have – anywhere – href="/wp-content/favicon.ico"
If you do, that is the problem.

Thread Starter mickej
(@mickej)

18 years, 2 months ago

podz: Yes i have, and i DO have an favicon.ico. So the URI from http://www.myblog.com/wp-content/favicon.ico in Counterize should be there, but why does the browser try to find the favicon.ico in http://www.myblog.com/posts/2006/2/18/somepost/wp-content/favicon.ico if someone adds http://www.myblog.com/posts/2006/2/18/somepost/ to their bookmarks? That is the question… :S

Mark (podz)
(@podz)

18 years, 2 months ago

href=”/wp-content/favicon.ico”
means add that to whatever url is there in the address bar, so if you have
http://www.bbc.com
it will look at
http://www.bbc.com/wp-content/favicon.ico
which is probably correct

But
http://www.bbc.com/apple/folder/blog/
would also look relatively and that would be
http://www.bbc.com/apple/folder/blog/wp-content/favicon.ico
which is wrong.

So..in header, put the full url to the favicon and then see what happens.
Without a url to your site, this is as best as I can do.

whooami
(@whooami)

18 years, 2 months ago

ahhh, yes i didnt even to look where he/whe was putting the actual favicon

for what its worth, browsers look for your favicon at the root of your web site. Basically that means that though you may specify a path to it in your header so that they will see it when they hit your site, its a crap shoot if they bookmark it.

Safe thing is to put it in your web_root and use that path.

Thread Starter mickej
(@mickej)

18 years, 2 months ago

I putted the hole adress there, it hepled. Thx!

Now counterize doesn’t count any of the .ico-hits. Nice!

andemad
(@andemad)

18 years, 2 months ago

Mickej – good thing you asked. People have asked me previously why Counterize counted those hits, and I really couldn’t tell.
Being the author of something you can’t really explain is kindof crappy 🙂

Nice to get clarification…

Thread Starter mickej
(@mickej)

18 years, 2 months ago

Np. It’s me you are emailing with about the feature I want in counterize. 😉

drumat5280
(@drumat5280)

17 years, 7 months ago

I customized the way my URLs appear using the standard wordpress interface for URL rewrites, however when i use Counterize the only page it lists in the index.php page and no other ones. Is there a way around this?