Re: HTML page not loading when launching browsers from Intellij
Hi there,
I read through several other similar posts, and tried some of the suggested fixes, but I am still having some issues.
My problem is that I am using Intellij IDEA Ultimate 2018.2 and I trying to create and view a simple HTML page. When I click on the browser preview buttons in the upper right corner of intellij, my browser opens, but I receive a 404 error. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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what does your `index.html` look like? Do you have
<base hrefdefined in it?Also, looks like you have set up the built-in webserver to listen on port 8080 (Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Debugger, Port) - do you have any specific reason for this?
Hello Elena,
Thank you for your response. Here is a snip of the index.html file. I did change the port to 8080 from the default. Do you need to be running a localhost server to view html docs in browsers from IntelliJ? Sorry for the fundamental questions, I am very new at working with Intellij w/ respect to HTML.
Thanks,
Chris
>I did change the port to 8080 from the default.
what for?
>Do you need to be running a localhost server to view html docs in browsers from IntelliJ?
By default, HTML pages are served by IDEA built-in web server that is started automatically on IDE start
From your screenshot it looks as if you have just opened this file via File/Open, without creating a project? Serving such files doesn't work, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-15729. You need creating a project first
Ahhh, OK, got it! That makes sense. Thanks for you help - it is much appreciated.
CHris