Added control-upon-access of the default favicon.ico file

app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ class HomeController extends Controller
      */
     public function favicon(FaviconHandler $favicons)
     {
-        $favicons->restoreOriginalIfNotExists();
+        $exists = $favicons->restoreOriginalIfNotExists();
-        return response()->file($favicons->getPath());
+        return response()->file($exists ? $favicons->getPath() : $favicons->getOriginalPath());
     }
 }

app/Uploads/FaviconHandler.php

@@ -35,25 +35,29 @@ class FaviconHandler
 
     /**
      * Restore the original favicon image.
+     * Returned boolean indicates if the copy occurred.
      */
-    public function restoreOriginal(): void
+    public function restoreOriginal(): bool
     {
-        $original = public_path('icon.ico');
+        $permissionItem = file_exists($this->path) ? $this->path : dirname($this->path);
-        if (!is_writeable($this->path)) {
+        if (!is_writeable($permissionItem)) {
-            return;
+            return false;
         }
 
-        copy($original, $this->path);
+        return copy($this->getOriginalPath(), $this->path);
     }
 
     /**
      * Restore the original favicon image if no favicon image is already in use.
+     * Returns a boolean to indicate if the file exists.
      */
-    public function restoreOriginalIfNotExists(): void
+    public function restoreOriginalIfNotExists(): bool
     {
-        if (!file_exists($this->path)) {
+        if (file_exists($this->path)) {
-            $this->restoreOriginal();
+            return true;
         }
+
+        return $this->restoreOriginal();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -64,6 +68,14 @@ class FaviconHandler
         return $this->path;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Get the path of the original favicon copy.
+     */
+    public function getOriginalPath(): string
+    {
+        return public_path('icon.ico');
+    }
+
     /**
      * Convert PNG image data to ICO file format.
      * Built following the file format info from Wikipedia:

tests/PublicActionTest.php

@@ -155,6 +155,18 @@ class PublicActionTest extends TestCase
         $this->get('/robots.txt')->assertSee("User-agent: *\nDisallow: /");
     }
 
+    public function test_default_favicon_file_created_upon_access()
+    {
+        $faviconPath = public_path('favicon.ico');
+        if (file_exists($faviconPath)) {
+            unlink($faviconPath);
+        }
+
+        $this->assertFileDoesNotExist($faviconPath);
+        $this->get('/favicon.ico');
+        $this->assertFileExists($faviconPath);
+    }
+
     public function test_public_view_then_login_redirects_to_previous_content()
     {
         $this->setSettings(['app-public' => 'true']);