favicon.ico throwing 404 TemplateLoader exception
I don't think you can open a .ico file with the browser directly, that's why the request 404s.

There's two ways to make it do its thing:


simply place it in the web root, e.g. public/favicon.ico
use this link tag in your document head: &lt;link rel="icon" href="{{ url('dist/img/favicon.ico') }}" type="image/x-icon"&gt;