AEM6.0, SP1: Favicon not showing up properly when using vault

[Former Community Member]

We are experiencing a weird issue around a website's favicon. It's located under /etc/designs/abc/clientlib/favicon.ico. On the local system the file is OK, not corrupted and shows up just the way it should. When build to the AEM instance though, it seems to become scrambled/corrupted:

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There's no errors when building. We are using the latest AEM 6.0 with SP1 installed. This happens with all .ico files that I tried. Other images in the clientlib folder are fine. Any idea what this could be?

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

• Is the image path of favicon is correct?   If not verify the header component and probabily change to use from dam rather than clientlib.  OR
• If you want to grap  favicon from the webserver instead of aem change veriy the Maven build - "filtering" property value for resource.

[Former Community Member]

Yes, the path is correct, otherwise it wouldn't show an image at all I believe. I figured it's a design element, not a content element so it should be in a clientlib. I tried it with a DAM asset which works fine, but that's not ideal I think. I'm just suprised it doesn't seem to work for .ico files but all other layout images we pull in from the clientlib folder (jpg, png, etc.) work just fine. It just seems to mess with the .ico files.

I realize there's plenty of work arounds but they don't really make it manageable in our build.