**Author:**  [@dbleier](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/dbleier)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/steal-errors-with-development-html/122/1 "2016-01-12T18:12:40Z")
I am trying to run development.html on my local file system (since ultimately I need the app to run without the server) and I get the following errors (using node 0.12, npm 2.14, donejs 0.5):
```
XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/npm.js. Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.fetchTextFromURL @ steal.js:2626(anonymous function) @ steal.js:2801init @ steal.js:377Promise @ steal.js:365$__Object$defineProperty.value @ steal.js:2800loader.fetch @ steal.js:3615loader.fetch @ steal.js:4638loader.fetch @ steal.js:4738(anonymous function) @ steal.js:1525tryCatchReject @ steal.js:1183runContinuation1 @ steal.js:1142Fulfilled.when @ steal.js:930ContinuationTask.run @ steal.js:1040Scheduler._drain @ steal.js:97Scheduler.drain @ steal.js:62run @ steal.js:268
steal.js:5894 steal - error loading @config. Error loading "package.json!npm" at
Error loading "npm" at file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/npm.js
: file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/npm.js
steal.js:2626
XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/dev.js. Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.fetchTextFromURL @ steal.js:2626(anonymous function) @ steal.js:2801init @ steal.js:377Promise @ steal.js:365$__Object$defineProperty.value @ steal.js:2800loader.fetch @ steal.js:3615loader.fetch @ steal.js:4638loader.fetch @ steal.js:4738(anonymous function) @ steal.js:1525tryCatchReject @ steal.js:1183runContinuation1 @ steal.js:1142Fulfilled.when @ steal.js:930ContinuationTask.run @ steal.js:1040Scheduler._drain @ steal.js:97Scheduler.drain @ steal.js:62run @ steal.js:268
steal.js:6060 error
Error loading "@dev" at file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/dev.js
: file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/dev.js undefined
steal.js:140
Potentially unhandled rejection [9] Error loading "@dev" at file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/dev.js
: file:///home/dovid/mm_workspace/MenuboardManager-dev/menuboard-manager/sssp/menuboard-manager/node_modules/steal/ext/dev.js (WARNING: non-Error used)
```
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**Author:**  [@matthewp](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/matthewp)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/steal-errors-with-development-html/122/2 "2016-01-13T15:57:04Z")
You’re not going to be able to open development.html from the filesystem in a normal browser. Cordova/NW use the file protocol but allow cross-origin requests, normal browsers do not.
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**Author:**  [@dbleier](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/dbleier)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/steal-errors-with-development-html/122/3 "2016-01-13T17:29:46Z")
what cross-origin requests are being made? Isn’t everything running locally, from the same origin (i.e. the filesystem)?
will production.html work?
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**Author:**  [@matthewp](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/matthewp)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/steal-errors-with-development-html/122/4 "2016-01-13T17:52:25Z")
Steal makes ajax requests to load your modules. Browsers do not allow ajax requests to the file system.
If you only use AMD syntax (no es6 or CommonJS) there is a plugin that will use script tags instead of ajax requests. If you use that you should be able to run off the filesystem. I’ll look for that plugin.
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**Author:**  [@dbleier](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/dbleier)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/steal-errors-with-development-html/122/5 "2016-01-14T15:14:21Z")
Good News, steal runs on the monitor even though it’s using the file:// protocol. And I got it to display my test app. 😀
I found the chrome flag that Justin mentioned, it’s --disable-web-security, and I found a chrome extension that will do the same thing called “Allow-Control-Allow-Origin.” However I couldn’t get either to work for me (yet). So worst case I’ll do local debugging in with the donejs develop server or in firefox.