Why am I getting error for apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png

Question

I have created a new rails3 project but I am seeing following logs many times in my server logs. Why I am getting these request and how can I avoid these?

Answer 1

If you ended here googling, this is a simple configuration to prevent this error full the web server logs:

Apache virtualhost

Redirect 404 /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png

    ErrorDocument 404 "apple-touch-icon-precomposed does not exist"

Nginx server block:

location =/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
}

PS: Is possible you want to add apple-touch-icon.png and favicon.ico too.