Setting a single favicon for the entire website

Question

Currently I'm using this bit of code to add a favicon to a website:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://www.mysite.co.uk/images/favicon/favicon1.ico" />

However, this code must be added to each HTML page. Does anyone know how to set a global favicon?

Everywhere I've looked tells me I must add it to each page.

UPDATE:

Chrome searches for a favicon.ico file in the root directory.

Firefox needs this on each page:

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/favicon.png" />

Answer 1

For future reference use php to include the header information (including the favicon) that stays consistent on each page so that you only have to edit one file instead of a large number of files.

Use <?include "header.php" ?> on all pages where your header.php includes all the code that is common to all pages

It could be something like:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="../quirksmode.js"></script>
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

and all the other code that needs to be included on all the pages

See more about include here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

EDIT: For now you could open all files in an editor like notepad++ and do a find and replace to replace all occurrences of with \r\n where \r\n is the newline character for windows in the extended search mode. Notepad++ has the option to do a find and replace in all open files.