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.

Answer 2

I had the same Problem.

Its because magento can't find a javascript file. Look at your /var/log/exception.log (You have to enable the log in System -> Config -> Developer Options)

In my log was the following error:

exception 'Exception' with message 'Warning: filemtime() [function.filemtime]: stat failed for /var/www/js/calendar/lang/calendar-en.js in /var/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Helper/Data.php on line 631' in /var/www/app/code/core/Mage/Core/functions.php:245

So I created the file and voila it works !

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Editing the config.xml didn't do the trick for me, I had to disable it in the database.

In table core_config_data set the value of the row with path dev/js/merge_files (config_id 772) to '0'.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction though!

This solution is worked for me, thanks.

Answer 5

The problem is related with the javascript merge option. Unfortunatly the form does not work without javascript. You have to change the merge_files option in app/code/core/Mage/Core/etc/config.xml to 0.

        <js>
            <merge_files>0</merge_files>
            <deprecation>0</deprecation>
        </js>

After that I removed all cache files and session files in var directory.

Answer 6

I had the same problem and came up with the following solution:

1. Verify that the permissions on media/js belong to the same user that the magento installation's folder is.
2. Clean the CSS/JS cache using the admin.

The combination of the two actually got things back to normal.