Why history.pushState not working?

Question

I'm using the following code to change the URL of a page without reloading the whole page:

 alert( window.location.href ); 
 window.history.pushState( {} , 'foo', '/foo' );
 alert( window.location.href );

Result:

First alert:

file:///C:/Users/name/Desktop/html/first.html

Second alert:
No Alert and no change in URL but I was expecting following:

file:///C:/Users/name/Desktop/html/foo

Where's the glitch? And how to change the browser URL without reloading the page?

Possible duplicate of [history.pushState will not work](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39814218/history-pushstate-will-not-work) — JJJ, Feb 23 '17 at 07:22

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '17 at 07:24

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Don't run this command using the physical files. It should be hosted on a real domain or localhost.

Examples:

answered Feb 23 '17 at 07:24

Amir H. Bagheri

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