Loading local HTML file in UIWebView (the HTML file has css and jss files linked to it) iOS

Question

Can someone tell me why am getting this error and how to resolve this error . Am trying to load a html file which is saved locally under a folder inside the documents directory . The html file has jss and css files linked to it . Please help me resolve this issue .

  NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
        NSString *path = [paths  objectAtIndex:0];

        NSLog(@"Saving");

        NSUserDefaults *prefs = [[NSUserDefaults alloc] init];

        bookid = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[prefs objectForKey:@"bookid"]];

        NSString *path1 = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"/%@",bookid];

        NSString *dataPath = [path stringByAppendingPathComponent:path1];

        dataPath = [dataPath stringByStandardizingPath];

        NSArray *directoryContent = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:dataPath error:NULL];

        for (int count = 0; count < (int)[directoryContent count]; count++)
        {

                NSLog(@"File %d: %@", (count + 1), [directoryContent objectAtIndex:count]);

        }

        filePath = [dataPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"index.html"];

        NSString* htmlString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:filePath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
        [_BookReaderWeb loadHTMLString:htmlString
                        baseURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:dataPath]];

This is the error which am getting :

Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1100 "The requested URL was not found on this server." UserInfo=0x7ffb2a96acf0 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7ffb286b7d20 "The requested URL was not found on this server.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=file:///Users/ChanqBro/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/A54D2148-91C3-49F4-B94C-CE46DEAEEC58/data/Containers/Data/Application/D08784A9-D5DD-41DE-95C5-DB97BE91BBBC/Library/Caches/3021/blank.html, NSErrorFailingURLKey=file:///Users/ChanqBro/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/A54D2148-91C3-49F4-B94C-CE46DEAEEC58/data/Containers/Data/Application/D08784A9-D5DD-41DE-95C5-DB97BE91BBBC/Library/Caches/3021/blank.html, NSLocalizedDescription=The requested URL was not found on this server.}

<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title> HELLO </title>

<!-- MONOCLE CORE -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="monocore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="monoctrl.js"></script>  
<script type="text/javascript" src="book_data.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="test.js"></script>


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="monocore.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="monoctrl.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="test.css" />

</head>
<body>
<div id="reader"></div>
</body>
</html>

No jeffery there is no file named blank.html . The html opens up in safari and mozila but not in Chrome as this has iframe . — Nikilicious
Why is index.html requesting blank.html? Somewhere in the HTML, CSS or JavaScript, the URL is being asked for. — Jeffery Thomas
I will edit my question with the html file . Please check that . — Nikilicious

Jeffery Thomas Jeffery Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-31T10:29:25

After a quick check, I see that you are using Monocle. Doing a search of monocle and blank.html, I found a couple of issues with Monocle on iOS that were fixed by adding an HTML file to a blank page called blank.html.

see https://github.com/joseph/Monocle/issues/51 or https://github.com/joseph/Monocle/issues/99

So now adding blank.html to your root dir should solve it. (I don't use UIWebView myself, so I'm proceeding on your advice here!)

Loading local HTML file in UIWebView (the HTML file has css and jss files linked to it) iOS

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