Why is my favicon appearing on Amazon S3 endpoint but not on the forwarded domain?

Question

I have tried everything possible and am out of ideas as to why my favicon is still not appearing. If I told you how much time I've spent trying to figure this out you'd understand why i'm on the verge of losing my mind.

Here's the rundown [i'm not technical- just starting to learn so please bear with me]:

I'm using Amazon S3 as my host. GoDaddy is the DNS and I have forwarding with a mask setup so that the amazon endpoint is directed to the actual domain.

Here's the strange thing-- the favicon appears on the amazon endpoint but doesn't on the forwarded domain which is where I want it to appear. The favicon also appears when I do some testing using Dreamweaver.

I can assure you that it isn't a matter a clearing the cache as I've done that numerous times and have ran tests to make sure that it's working. I've tried all the possible different types of variations of code and nothing works. I'm led to believe that it's not an issue with the code, cache, file but rather something else that is out of my realm of knowledge.

So I come to Stackoverflow.

Please-- any help will be GREATLY appreciated!

Answer 1

For anyone having such problem - making the favicon public and using a direct link found in the file's properties on s3 did the charm.