# Missing workbox directory in public/javascript? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-workbox-directory-in-public-javascript/279359 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [September 18, 2023, 7:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-workbox-directory-in-public-javascript/279359 "2023-09-18T07:30:14Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![MichaIng](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaing/32/251089_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MichaIng) #### Post date: [May 20, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-workbox-directory-in-public-javascript/279359/9 "2025-05-20T00:51:41Z")
We get a similar wave of errors every few hours: ```plaintext 2025/05/19 16:48:10 [error] 63#63: *1738520 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-core.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-core.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/19 16:48:10 [error] 63#63: *1738520 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-routing.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-routing.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/19 16:48:10 [error] 63#63: *1738520 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-expiration.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-expiration.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/19 16:48:10 [error] 63#63: *1738520 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-sw.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-sw.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/19 16:48:10 [error] 63#63: *1738520 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-cacheable-response.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-cacheable-response.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/19 16:48:10 [error] 63#63: *1738520 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-strategies.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/assets/workbox-77b0e3e0dd4773bcd6c7e74f302f7c69/workbox-strategies.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" ``` In this case it’s with `public/assets`, but we also have log entries for `public/javascript`: ```plaintext 2025/05/12 18:00:39 [error] 78023#78023: *701261 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/javascripts/workbox/workbox-sw.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/javascripts/workbox/workbox-sw.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/12 18:00:39 [error] 78023#78023: *701261 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/javascripts/workbox/workbox-routing.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/javascripts/workbox/workbox-routing.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/12 18:00:39 [error] 78023#78023: *701261 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/javascripts/workbox/workbox-cacheable-response.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/javascripts/workbox/workbox-cacheable-response.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/12 18:00:39 [error] 78023#78023: *701261 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/javascripts/workbox/workbox-strategies.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/javascripts/workbox/workbox-strategies.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/12 18:00:39 [error] 78023#78023: *701261 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/javascripts/workbox/workbox-core.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/javascripts/workbox/workbox-core.prod.js HTTP/1.1", host: "XXXX" 2025/05/12 18:00:39 [error] 78023#78023: *701261 open() "/var/www/discourse/public/javascripts/workbox/workbox-expiration.prod.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: unix:, server: _, request: "GET /forum/javascripts/workbox/workbox-expiration.prod.js HTTP/1. ``` Did the path change with some version? Probably it is when the browser cache is not cleared properly, respectively the asset not invalidated. Or, probably more likely, it is some dumb bots that keep scanning for resources they once found. I mean we have thousands of visitors and dozens of posters between two such log sets, so it doesn’t seem to be a general issue. In our case access is done via proxy outside of the container and UNIX socket, hence no client IPs visible to check. For [`77.208.167.253`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-workbox-directory-in-public-javascript/279359/7) I couldn’t find any relevant info, whether it is a bot or not. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-workbox-directory-in-public-javascript/279359)._