Favicon files in root since update to 3.9.6.1

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Hi,

I’ve recently updated to 3.9.6.1 (from ~3.8.(?)) and my staging environment doesn’t show the favicon anymore. I have put the favicon (and other files from realfavicongenerator.net) into root and I’m very sure it worked nicely before the update. When I remove

# block access to files in web root
RewriteRule ^[^\/]+\.[a-z]+ index.php [L]

in .htaccess it works nicely which makes sense. On localhost it works always, no matter if debugging is on or not.

What’s the best procedure here? Put the favicon files into any other folder than root? Interestingly, /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml is always accessible but /favicon.ico is not (with above RewriteRule included)

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Where did you get this from? Those lines are not in the Starterkit’s .htaccess file.

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I used the Katkit boilerplate