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Is favicon feature supported in 1.23.5 version of media wiki?

Yes, by setting $wgFavicon to the relative path or absolute URL of your favicon. See Manual:$wgFavicon for more information!

And - unrelated to your question - please note that MediaWiki 1.23.5 is an old and insecure version. You should not use it! Instead, do an upgrade to a supported version.

The current version from the 1.23 branch is MediaWiki 1.23.15!

introduced version of favicon is 1.6.0..But we are using 1.23.5

That means it's working!

In fact, you should upgrade to version 1.23.15!

It is working fine in chrome but not in ie.How to make it work in ie?

i got this code from some forum

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>

But not sure where to add it to make it work in ie?

Some versions of IE require favicons of certain sizes to be displayed, like 16x16 & 32x32. If your icon is not that size, it may not work. Also, it should be a real ICO file and not a PNG or BMP renamed to .ico

The image is 16*16 and it is a ico file..but still not displaying

Possibly the browser cached an old version of the file (or no file at all). Try with Internet Explorer, but from a different computer, to see, what you get!

I tried.but no luck..

Is your wiki public? That would help us help you.

Yes it is public to only people in our organization.we have authorization for it.

Did you set variable as mentioned on begining of this topic or only added the code?

i have set the variable

Use view source feature in your browser and find all "favicon" phrases.

thanks..issue is resolved