I have been searching everywhere for where to put my favicon. Currently I have it in my document root(/var/www/favicon.ico)(I am using apache2 on ubuntu), and my code looks like this in my index.html (The only other file in /var/www)
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/var/www/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Is it supposed to go in my ServerRoot? I have tried clearing chromes cache, but every time all I get is the same freenom (My domain name provider's) favicon. When I go to my website http://www.website.cf/favicon.ico, I can see their 16*16 icon.
Sorry if I have botched some terminology, I'm a linux/apache newb. Thanks for any help!
Put it in your web root. This is the default location and web browsers will always look there first. Then you won't need to use a <link> tag but if you do you would use:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Based on your cpode sample above that would be in your /var/www directory.