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

Check if your media folder is writeable by the user you webserver runs with. I had a symlink to a folder that was only writeable by root

chown -R www-data:www-data media

helped.