Google Chrome: DOMException: Registration failed - manifest empty or missing

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Solution 1

Because I didn't find an answer anywhere out there in the WWW, but managed to get it working after some time I want to provide my solution/answer for other users, who probably have the same problem:

In the file where I inlcuded the Pushpad files I wrote some PHP-Code before the <head>-Tag to include some files, e.g. for database connection. After I moved the PHP-Code below the <head>-Tag everything worked fine.

Solution 2

For me it was a redirect. The manifest.json must return a 200 status code (must be directly available from the server), without any redirects. You can check the response via

wget --max-redirect=0 https://example.com/manifest.json

curl https://example.com/manifest.json

Solution 3

I faced same issue,added manifest file right after head tag . which worked for me.Cheers!

Solution 4

This may be an issue with your Service Worker scope. I ran into a similar problem when I rearranged my files/directories. Make sure your sw.js is on the same level as your manifest.json, otherwise the service worker won't be able to find your manifest. Try putting them both in the root of your directory. Optionally, you can specify the scope of your service worker by adding it to serviceWorker.register():

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
  navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw-test/sw.js', {scope: '/sw-test/'})
  .then(function(reg) {
    // registration worked
    console.log('Registration succeeded. Scope is ' + reg.scope);
  }).catch(function(error) {
    // registration failed
    console.log('Registration failed with ' + error);
  });
}

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Updated on June 04, 2022

Comments

Fabian H. almost 2 years
I am trying to implement Push Notifications on my website (using Pushpad). Therefore I created a "manifest.json" with following content:
```
{
    "gcm_sender_id": "my_gcm_sender_id",
    "gcm_user_visible_only": true
}
```
of course I created a valid GCM-Account and have a sender id

I put the manifest.json into my root directory and I also added this line to my index.php:
```
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
```
Using Firefox everything works fine and I can send and receive push notifications (so I think the manifest-include works fine), but Chrome won't work...

The console shows following error:
```
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Registration failed - manifest empty or missing
```
I searched Google for a long time and tried everything I found, but nothing works.

What I tried:
1. created the manifest.json with "Editor" and saved it as type All Types (so no hidden .txt-file) and also with UTF-8-Encoding.
2. restarted Chrome
3. cleared Chrome's cache, history, etc.
I really hope somebody can help me.
- Marco Castelluccio almost 8 years
  
  Firefox works because it doesn't require a manifest in order to enable push. Can you try loading the manifest directly in your browser to see if you can actually access it?
- collimarco almost 8 years
  
  I confirm that Firefox doesn't look for a manifest file, so that's the reason why it works. Have you tried typing in the address bar the url https://yourwebsite.com/manifest.jsonand see if it's returned correctly? Can you provide a link to your website?
- collimarco almost 8 years
  
  @FabianH. Another guess: are you sure that you have the / before manifest.json? Try opening the network tab of the Chrome developers tools and see if the request of manifest.json is completed successfully