Why is Magento 1.4 including javascript files by filesystem path?

Question

I am in the process of testing a Magento 1.3 site using Magento 1.4. I am seeing very weird and inconsistent behavior. Instead of including the URL of my javascript files, M

Answer 1

It was permissions issue in my case. These ssh commands run in the root directory of Magento fixed it:

    # chown all to proper user and group, ie. www-data
    chown -R www-data:www-data *
    # change all files permissions to 644
    find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
    # change all directories permissions to 755
    find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
    # change all to be writable in var and media directories
    chmod -R 777 var/ media/

If it still doesn't work then change these two values for path column in the core_config_data in MySQL from "1" to "0":

• dev/css/merge_css_files
• dev/js/merge_files