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Asked: 2026-05-28T07:37:32+00:00

I am trying to load an external site instead of the internal index.html file

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I am trying to load an external site instead of the internal index.html file found in the www folder in PhoneGap.. But have not been sucessful. I’ve tried several things that I found online but they all address just loading external links within the wrapper instead of safari.

Which is not what I am looking for… I am looking for when the phonegap application loads that it loads a page hosted on my web server instead of the index.html file.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In iOS, you need to modify the shouldStartLoadWithRequest method in your AppDelegate.m file :

    - (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
    NSURL *url = [request URL];
    if ( [ [url scheme] isEqualToString:@"http"] || [ [url scheme] 
                                                     isEqualToString:@"https"] )   
    { 
        return YES; 

    } else { 

        return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request 
                navigationType:navigationType]; 
    } 
}

    Then, you can have change you local index.html in the www folder with :

    <html> 
<body onload="document.location.href='http://yourComputerIpOrServer/index.html';"> 
<h1>Loading....</h1> 
</body> 
</html>

    Of course, this is for debugging only. You should not submit it to the AppStore, it’s prohibited and it will be rejected.

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