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How to server favicon.ico with Django and Whitenoise – Nginx

I use whitenoise for static files and it works fine.

But how can I serve the /favicon.ico file?

There is a setting called WHITENOISE_ROOT, but I don’t understand how to use it.

I would like to keep my nginx config simple and serve all files via gunicorn

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    If you want those files to be managed by collectstatic

    Let’s assume after running collectstatic, your favicon.ico file ends up being copied in a root subdirectory, located in your STATIC_ROOT directory.

    Then, with:

    WHITENOISE_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'root')

    Whitenoise will serve all files in STATIC_ROOT/root/ at the root of your application.

    In your case, STATIC_ROOT/root/favicon.ico will be served at /favicon.ico.

    If you don’t want those files to be managed by collectstatic

    You can have a root_staticfiles folder in your BASE_DIR which simply contains the static files you want to serve at /.

    WHITENOISE_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'root_staticfiles')

    In this case, Whitenoise will serve all files in BASE_DIR/root_staticfiles/ at the root of your application.

    Update about pathlib (2022-10-04)

    Since a while now, the default settings.py Django creates uses pathlib. To be consistent with it, one may replace os.join calls with / operators, eg.:

    WHITENOISE_ROOT = STATIC_ROOT / 'root'
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    I have a django app that uses Whitenoise (hosted on Heroku) and serves my favicon from a separate folder from my static files.

    Make a folder root_files at path BASE_DIR/root_files.

    In settings.py:

    WHITENOISE_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'root_files')

    For a real-life code example checkout Mozilla’s Bedrock repo. They have favicons in BASE/root_files and configure WHITENOISE_ROOT in settings.py

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    You could as per this answer by hanleyhansen add the following line in a base template (used by all further templates):

    <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="{% static 'favicon.ico' %}"/>

    Or you could write a redirect view like this answer by wim with some little modification:

    from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
from django.conf.urls.static import static

re_path(r'^favicon.ico$', RedirectView.as_view(url=static('favicon.ico'), permanent=True))
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