Apache doesn't serve files in "javascript" directory. Why?
apache, debian, ubuntu
Solution
I was trying to find solution to this on Stack Overflow, but I couldn't. So I'm just leaving this here if anyone happens to encounter the same problem.
So why the hell would it look in the /usr/share/javascript instead of what I had configured in the VirtualHost. To figure that out I did something like the following:
$ cd /etc/apache2
$ grep -R Alias * | grep share
...
conf-enabled/javascript-common.conf:Alias /javascript /usr/share/javascript/
...
After googling for that configuration file name I found some explanation.
I don't know why, but I had the javascript-common package installed. It doesn't seem harmful to get rid of it, so doing `$ sudo apt-get purge javascript-common` solved the problem for me.
Problem
All of the sudden I started getting 404s for files like `http://example.localhost/javascript/jquery.min.js` Earlier everything was working just fine. I didn't change any configs, at least not manually. But now if I'd try to access the `/javascript` directory itself I would get `"Cannot serve directory /usr/share/javascript/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.cgi,index.pl,index.php,index.xhtml,index.htm) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive` in the Apache error log.