[CLOSED] Setting to Use Local Domain Instead of File Protocol In Live Preview

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Issue by HughxDev
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 at 05:12 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#1920

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Currently Live Preview opens up documents through the file protocol, as in file:///path/to/index.html. This is bad for development since you can’t use things like root- or protocol-relative URLs, only document-relative (even with <base />). So:

<img src="/img/photo.jpg" />

and

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

…no longer work; you have to use:

<img src="img/photo.jpg" />

and

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

…respectively. This makes migration from a local to remote environment or vice-versa a huge pain, as you have to find/replace every URL in your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also, Typekit breaks, as it’s impossible to add a local filesystem path to a kit’s list of allowed domains. It would be helpful to have an option to make Live Preview open up documents with a custom local domain such as localhost, as in http://localhost/path/to/index.html.

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Comment by peterflynn
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 at 07:51 GMT

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@hguiney, does this feature help? https://trello.com/card/3-url-mapping-for-live-development/4f90a6d98f77505d7940ce88/664 You'll still need to set up the local webserver yourself, but hopefully it's a step in the right direction. We're working on this in the current sprint, so it should be available in just a couple of weeks.

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Comment by HughxDev
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 at 08:00 GMT

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Yes, that should do exactly what I want. Pleased to hear it’s being worked on!

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Comment by peterflynn
Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 at 18:19 GMT

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Great! I'll close this bug, then.

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Comment by MjJuneja
Thursday Mar 16, 2017 at 15:36 GMT

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Please help link is not opening and am facing same problem.