Javascript Not Executing Using XAMPP

In my html document (which is in the xampp/htdocs directory), I'm using an external .js file. The .js file is in the same directory as my html file. I'm simply trying to use docume

Solution 1:

Internet Explorer's security policy may block certain scripts from running on a local machine.

There are ways to avoid this -- such as by adding the XAMPP website as a trusted location -- but often this gets tricky since the default "Intranet Zone" is auto-configured on a PC and modifying that can have other consequences (different zones assume different settings, such as passing NTLM credentials to local websites).

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/7038775/3196753

A quick fix often is to add the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to the URL, but depending on the zone settings, this may still cause issues.

A final solution, and one many developers fall back on, is to actually use a registered DNS address, such as http://localtest.me/, which points back to localhost and should use the "Internet Zone".

As Chris G points out in the comments, this isn't typical. Normally localhost can be used without issue so I've provided an example Local Intranet setting which can cause this: