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Magento Admin Javascript Paths Wrong on 1.4 + Solution

If you upgrade to Magento version 1.4 and find that your admin totally stops working then this might be for you.

If you view source and notice that your javascript paths are totally wrong then it could be that Merge JavaScript Files is causing it.

The answer is:

go to System -> Configuration -> Developer Settings -> Javascript Settings -> Merge JavaScript Files (beta) and set it to “no”. It is realy a beta :D

However – you can’t because your admin it totally not working..

So the other answer is to go to the core_config_data table and set the path dev/js/merge_files to 0

However – on checking ours, that row was not even in the core_config_data table.

The final solution was to add a new row, setting the path to dev/js/merge_files and the value to 0.

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5 Comments

Maco
August 24th, 2010

Thanks a ton man.
The weird thing is that i had this issue after moving the installation from a setup with apache 2+ to one with apache 1.3.
Still can’t figure out why the change in behavior of the site.

Thanks !
 

Pavel
November 4th, 2010

Thanks, that advise helped me
 

Rumi
May 23rd, 2011

After turning both CSS and JS merging on Magento 1.5.1.0, my admin was suddenly stripped from all styles and none of the buttons worked any more. Your suggestion above was the only way to fix it.

Thanks!
 

Kevin
July 26th, 2011

This also happened to me on 1.5.1.0 and this solution helped a lot, thanks!

Can anyone suggest a solution to get the JS/CSS combining to work properly?
 

Yuri
January 8th, 2012

Thanks you for the clear and useful post. Save hrs for investigation! Respect!
 

 

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