[Python] How to get my favicon at `example.com/favicon.ico` in my Django project?

Google currently does not show my website's favicon in its search results and I learned that it is becuase it should be located at example.com/favicon.ico. I'm looking for a simple way to do this, hopefully without relying on redirects. I've used redirection to the version in my static folder but when I visit the url it redirects to example.com/static/favicon.ico, which I do not want. I want that if a user or a crawler visits example.com/favicon.ico they see my favicon. It is currently located at:

my_project/
├── my_project/
│ ├── ...
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── ...
├── manage.py
└── static/
└── img/
└── favicon.ico


I use gunicorn as my web server and whitenoise as my http server. Here is my urls.py:

from django.urls import path, include # new

from django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemap # new

from finder.views import ProcessorDetailSitemap, ArticleDetailSitemap, StaticViewSitemap # Correct import path


#from django.conf import settings

#from django.conf.urls.static import static


sitemaps = {

'processor'rocessorDetailSitemap,

'article': ArticleDetailSitemap,

'static': StaticViewSitemap,

}


urlpatterns = [

path('admin/', admin.site.urls),

path('', include('finder.urls')), #new

path("sitemap.xml", sitemap, {"sitemaps": sitemaps}, name="django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap",),

]


It is also linked in my template usingn<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="{% static 'img/favicon.ico' %}">

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