AngularJS Error: Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome-extension, https
I have three files of a very simple angular js application
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="gemStore">
<head>
<script src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.8/angular.min.js'></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="app.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-controller="StoreController as store">
<div class="list-group-item" ng-repeat="product in store.products">
<h3>{{product.name}} <em class="pull-right">{{product.price | currency}}</em></h3>
</div>
<product-color></product-color>
</body>
</html>
product-color.html
<div class="list-group-item">
<h3>Hello <em class="pull-right">Brother</em></h3>
</div>
app.js
(function() {
var app = angular.module('gemStore', []);
app.controller('StoreController', function($http){
this.products = gem;
}
);
app.directive('productColor', function() {
return {
restrict: 'E', //Element Directive
templateUrl: 'product-color.html'
};
}
);
var gem = [
{
name: "Shirt",
price: 23.11,
color: "Blue"
},
{
name: "Jeans",
price: 5.09,
color: "Red"
}
];
})();
I started getting this error as soon as I entered an include of product-color.html using custom directive named productColor:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///C:/product-color.html. Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.
angular.js:11594 Error: Failed to execute 'send' on 'XMLHttpRequest': Failed to load 'file:///C:/product-color.html'.
What may be going wrong? Is it a path issue for product-color.html?
All my three files are in the same root folder C:/user/project/
Answer
This error is happening because you are just opening html documents directly from the browser. To fix this you will need to serve your code from a webserver and access it on localhost. If you have Apache setup, use it to serve your files. Some IDE's have built in web servers, like JetBrains IDE's, Eclipse...
If you have Node.Js setup then you can use http-server. Just run npm install http-server -g and you will be able to use it in terminal like http-server C:\location\to\app.