Fix for Google Chrome favicon loading in Django. You may have noticed that Chrome has issues loading the appropriate favicon on Django if you have it in a different path other than just '/favicon.ico'. Firefox follows the template icon links no problem, but Chrome needs a little more help. I fixed this issue by adding this quick line to the urls…

Chrome and Django favicon fix

#urls.py
from django.conf import settings

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^favicon.ico/$', lambda x: HttpResponseRedirect(settings.STATIC_URL+'ico/favicon.ico')), #google chrome favicon fix
)

# base.html
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}ico/favicon.ico">

or just put this in your urls.py:
url(r'^favicon\.ico$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/favicon/favicon.ico')),

from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
url(r'^favicon.ico$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/favicon/favicon.ico')),

Nice solution, thanks!

thanks it works 👍
I move HttpResponseRedirect(settings.STATIC_URL+'ico/favicon.ico') to separate view function for keep codes clean ;)

it works, thank you~~~

This will work for those using Django 2.x and later...

from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView
path('favicon.ico/', RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/img/favicon/favicon.ico')),

NB:
Please put this in urls.py in your project folder; that is the folder which contains the "settings.py" file.
Also, take note of the location of the favicon.ico path. If your favicon.ico is located in "image" folder, then you have to provide that path like below:
path('favicon.ico/', RedirectView.as_view(url='/static/image/favicon.ico')),

it works, thank you!!!

on django 3.1.5, it works, thanks