RJ

Quandary: How can I serve a different favicon for a parked domain?

I have several parked domains using the same hosting account. PHP is used to detect the domain and serve different content for that domain. I'd like to also serve a different favicon.ico for each of the parked domains.

What's the solution?

dgaussin

I'm sure there's a lot of solution, but the first way I'd try is the following.

In the .htaccess use ForceType to force Apache to use PHP handler when delivering the file "favicon.ico". Write a simple php script returning the .ico mime type then an .ico content file and use your database to pick up the right favicon.ico

That could be worked

RJ

I like that solution a lot. Serving favicon.ico as a forced PHP script and using it to pick the right .ICO file would probably work great.

To serve a PNG file I would do this,

$im = imagecreatefrompng("test.png");
imagepng($im);

How would you do the same thing with .ICO files?

dgaussin

You don't have to create an .ico file, just open and read an .ico file and send the content to browser.

Even somethig like could work :

$icon = file_get_contents('domain1.ico');
header ("Content-type: image/jpeg");
echo $icon;

RJ

Thanks, David. I was trying to make it more complicated than I needed to. Time to put this altogether now and code it.

For future reference, I found that the MIME type for favicon files is "image/vnd.microsoft.icon"

dgaussin

Seems favicon has a lot of mime type
The best is to use the mime type used by the server...