Event log error from Ektron aliasing module

Have you ever seen this error in your event viewer on an Ektron site?

Message:Resource not found Stack trace:  

   at Ektron.Cms.UrlAliasing.StaticFileHandler.
_GetFileInfo(String filename)
at Ektron.Cms.UrlAliasing.StaticFileHandler.System.Web.
IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext ctxt)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.
System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep
step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

It can be tricky to figure out what this is all about as the error message doesn’t say what the file is that is missing.  I had this recently on a site and figured out what it was by trawling through the IIS logs.  I found a number of 404 Page Not Found errors that corresponded to the messages in the event viewer.

Strangely enough, it turned out to be a missing fav.icon file!

For a while I was sure it meant there was a template missing.  I can’t guarantee that it will be fav.icon in every case, but its worth hitting the IIS logs to see if you can match 404 errors to the event viewer.

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