Magento has an aggressive browser caching policy that sets a default expiration of “access plus 1 year”. That tells your browser to cache everything locally for 1 year after the first access. You may notice some weird behavior in your Magento admin with that on, though. Like, after editing a product you have to hit [...]

Running an Apache server on Debian? Suddenly find you can’t access any files in /javascript? As part of a maintenance upgrade, somehow the javascript-common package was selected for me. It quietly installs a symlink javascript-common.conf in /etc/apache2/conf.d that globally aliases all /javascript URLs to /usr/share/javascript. Why? Who knows. I’m sure whoever did it meant well. [...]