Merge pull request #2563 from ElLorans/master

doc/advanced.rst

@@ -626,3 +626,13 @@ This targets SQLAlchemy specifically.
 Unlike the previous setting, this will specifically only affect the behaviour of
 IntegrityErrors. These usually come from violations on constraints in the database,
 for example trying to insert a row with a primary key that already exists.
+
+Adding a favicon to the admin page
+************************************
+Adding a favicon to flask-admin is easy: just save a .ico file and add a /favicon.ico
+route to your flask app.
+
+    from flask import redirect, url_for
+    @app.route("/favicon.ico")
+    def favicon():
+        return redirect(url_for("static", filename="favicon.ico"))

examples/sqla/admin/main.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import flask_admin as admin
-from flask import send_file
+from flask import redirect
+from flask import url_for
 from flask_admin.babel import gettext
 from flask_admin.base import MenuLink
 from flask_admin.contrib import sqla
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ def index():
 
 @app.route("/favicon.ico")
 def favicon():
-    return send_file("static/favicon.ico")
+    return redirect(url_for("static", filename="/favicon.ico"))
 
 
 # Custom filter class