Working with Local Files (file: URLs)

LiveReload is cool with file: URLs, unless you're using a Safari browser extension, which does not allow that. So, to work with local files, you need either:

• use the latest versions of Chrome or Firefox extensions, or
• use LiveReload without browser extensions.

We recommend Chrome over Safari for file: URLs. If, however, you prefer to develop in Safari with a browser extension, we recommend one of these approaches:

• save your files as e.g. ~/Sites/something/foo.html, and view it as http://localhost/~username/something/foo.html, where username is your short user name (don't forget to also enable Web Sharing in System Preferences)

• put a symlink into Sites folder to your project directory (you need to enable symlinks first as described here)

• use MAMP

• use XAMP