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Troubleshooting blank html from laspublish/potree


I'm working with the Laspublish transformer to view point clouds in potree. The script runs fine but results in a blank html document. I have confirmed that the original Las data is valid via Data Inspector.

Even the side bar css or html code does not seem to be rendering correctly.

Any help is greatly appreciated!


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It looks like you're trying to open the HTML file directly from disc, but it seems you need to run them on a webserver in order for them to work. Most likely because it uses some server-side scripting that browsers will not load (for security reasons) when opened locally.

The Potree "Getting Started" page has some information on that. Basically you'll need to set up a local webserver, e.g. Apache through the XAMPP project, then place the HTML file in its htdocs directory and navigate to it via localhost. Hope this helps.

Thanks. I'll try that now. I had expected to see something locally and was using that for troubleshooting before pushing to AWS.

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