Unable to set favicon using Jekyll and github pages

Question

I am trying to set a favicon.ico for my github page, but it doesn\'t work. When I serve it locally I see the standard \"empty\" favicon and when I push it I see

Answer 1

I got it to working using:

Notes on the snippet:

1. PNG format for the favicon,
2. a relative URL in the HTML head tag (in minimia this is head.html).
3. Adding relative_url tells Liquid to prepend the url and baseurl to the given path.