Apache has decided websites shouldn't have their own /javascript (Shallow Thoughts)

Apache has decided websites shouldn't have their own /javascript

Someone sent me an alert that my Galilean Jupiter's moons simulation and SatSat Saturn's moons simulation pages weren't working.

Sure enough, they weren't. The error console said Loading failed for the script with the name of a calendar widget I use, along with the CSS it uses, both loaded from a directory inside /javascript on my website, the same website where the moon simulations are running.

I checked the logs: sure enough, references to those files were returning 404 in the access log, with nothing at all in the error log. The files were clearly there, and world readable, so it wasn't a permissions problem.

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