Title: Loading Script failed Errors – Path without Backslashes
Last modified: March 15, 2019

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# Loading Script failed Errors – Path without Backslashes

 *  Resolved [Jonathan Laukenmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additivefx/)
 * (@additivefx)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m currently facing a very strange issue that must come from Client Dash – When
   I deactivate the plugin it goes away.
 * Only in the backend I get Warnings in the JavaScript console (and similar errors
   in my apache error log) saying this:
 * `Failed to load <script> with source "http://myurl/wp-content/themes/JointsWP-
   CSS-masterC:xampphtdocswp-contentpluginsclient-dashcorelibraryrbm-field-helpers/
   assets/dist/js/rbm-field-helpers-admin.min.js?ver=1.4.3".`
 * I get LOTS of them every time the admin page is loaded and I don’t know where
   to start to find the problem. Every one of those errors contains the string
 * `C:xampphtdocswp-contentpluginsclient-dashcorelibraryrbm-field-helpers`
 * which seems to be inserted into these paths that are otherwise correct. Since
   that’s your plugin I thought I’d ask you first!
 * Thanks! btw. it’s VERY urgent, this it probably the source of freezes of our 
   webserver that happen every few days…

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 *  Thread Starter [Jonathan Laukenmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additivefx/)
 * (@additivefx)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/#post-11318255)
 * I fixed the error for now. Since I’m using a Windows system and you are using
   string compares to prevent edge cases I run into this issue:
 * in “rbm-field-helpers-php”:
 *     ```
       if ( strpos( __FILE__, WP_PLUGIN_DIR ) !== false) {
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_URI', plugins_url( '', __FILE__ ) );
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_DIR', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );		
       } else {	
       	$theme_dir = get_stylesheet_directory();
   
       	// Relative path from the Theme Directory to the directory holding RBM FH
       	$relative_from_theme_dir = dirname( str_replace( $theme_dir, '', __FILE__ ) );
   
       	// Build out our Constants for DIR and URI
       	// DIR could have been made using just dirname( __FILE__ ), but we needed the difference to create the URI anyway
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_URI', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . $relative_from_theme_dir );
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_DIR', $theme_dir . $relative_from_theme_dir );
       }
       ```
   
 * and this is my fix for now.
 *     ```
       //this fixes issues when comparing the string in the next step. 
       //Original result of "WP_PLUGIN_DIR" for me was C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-content/plugins" - and is being tested against a string with only "\" in it.
       $alternateString = str_replace( "/", "\\", WP_PLUGIN_DIR);
   
       if ( strpos( __FILE__, WP_PLUGIN_DIR ) !== false || strpos(__FILE__, $alternateString) !== false) {
   
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_URI', plugins_url( '', __FILE__ ) );
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_DIR', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );
   
       } else {
   
       	$theme_dir = get_stylesheet_directory();
   
       	// Relative path from the Theme Directory to the directory holding RBM FH
       	$relative_from_theme_dir = dirname( str_replace( $theme_dir, '', __FILE__ ) );
   
       	// Build out our Constants for DIR and URI
       	// DIR could have been made using just dirname( __FILE__ ), but we needed the difference to create the URI anyway
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_URI', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . $relative_from_theme_dir );
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_DIR', $theme_dir . $relative_from_theme_dir );
   
       }
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/)
 * (@d4mation)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/#post-11318431)
 * [@additivefx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additivefx/)
 * Thanks for the report! I believe this could be fixed with wp_normalize_path().
   Could you try replacing your fix with the following for me? I do not have a Windows
   server to test on.
 *     ```
       $plugin_dir = wp_normalize_path( WP_PLUGIN_DIR );
   
       if ( strpos( __FILE__, $plugin_dir ) !== false ) {
   
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_URI', plugins_url( '', __FILE__ ) );
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_DIR', plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );
   
       }
       else {
   
       	$theme_dir = get_stylesheet_directory();
   
       	// Relative path from the Theme Directory to the directory holding RBM FH
       	$relative_from_theme_dir = dirname( str_replace( $theme_dir, '', __FILE__ ) );
   
       	// Build out our Constants for DIR and URI
       	// DIR could have been made using just dirname( __FILE__ ), but we needed the difference to create the URI anyway
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_URI', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . $relative_from_theme_dir );
       	define( 'RBM_FIELD_HELPERS_DIR', $theme_dir . $relative_from_theme_dir );
   
       }
       ```
   
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/).
      Reason: formatting
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/).
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/).
      Reason: Long week
 *  Plugin Author [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/)
 * (@d4mation)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/#post-11318466)
 * I have edited the above a few times. Just in case you grabbed one of the previous
   versions of it I wanted you to be aware 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Jonathan Laukenmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additivefx/)
 * (@additivefx)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/#post-11329152)
 * Hi,
 * this does not fix the problem, since it tries to match the these two strings:
 * C:/xampp/htdocs/wp-content/plugins
    C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\client-
   dash\core\library\rbm-field-helpers\rbm-field-helpers.php
 * You have to normalize both strings, so this is the fix you’re looking for:
 *     ```
       $plugin_dir = wp_normalize_path( WP_PLUGIN_DIR );
       $current_file_dir = wp_normalize_path ( __FILE__ );
   
       if ( strpos( $current_file_dir, $plugin_dir ) !== false ) {
       ...
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/)
 * (@d4mation)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/#post-11470077)
 * [@additivefx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additivefx/)
 * Sorry for the delay. I must have missed the email replies for this.
 * I’ll run through some testing for this and let you know when I’ve released an
   update!
 *  Plugin Author [d4mation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4mation/)
 * (@d4mation)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/loading-script-failed-errors-path-without-backslashes/#post-11478080)
 * [@additivefx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/additivefx/)
 * I wanted to let you know that I’ve released a fix for this in Client Dash v2.1.2.
   This should work properly on Windows-based Servers now!

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