Javascript as a document?

Hi, I’m sorry if this is a terrible newbie question... I’ve read the topics about using css files as modx documents and it’s working. So I tried to do the same thing with a javascript file: I created a new document, settings: text/javascript, no template. I put my script inside and linked to it from the template the same way as my css files. However, it’s not working
The path (eg. http://mysite.com/script.js) is ok: if I look it up directly in my browser, I can see the file. And the javascript itself is ok too, because when I put it inside my assets folder and link there from my html file, it’s working. Any ideas?

Hi,

did you set the template for the js doc in modx to blank ?

:-)

EDIT: I’ve read too fast, it seems that you’ve already set it to blank.

I did! It’s weird, no?

Can you post the bit of the tempate that has the call to your js document?

Sure. This is working:

This is not working:

http://mysite.com/ufo.js exists (I can go there with my browser) and its contents are exactly the same as http://mysite.com/assets/templates/astronaute/scripts/ufo.js
I’m probably making some very obvious mistake here, if that’s the case I apologize

if mysite.com/ufo.js is working but you do not have a ufo.js file in your site root, then you have a document with the alias of "ufo.js". If the second doesn’t work, it means you don’t have the file uploaded into that location. Probably a simple typo somewhere, and impossible to determine anything more without access to your server or more details (like real URLs). If you have friendly alias paths on, you’re probably missing a base href in your document head section, or have it below the calls to your javascript and css.

Typically, but certainly not a requirement or hard rule, you’ll see javascript files in assets/js/.

Thanks for your help. The site is here, BTW: http://www.arlingenarling.com/nieuw/
I have set a base url and in the manager there’s a document with the alias of ufo.js. The site is in a subdirectory folder, would that make a difference?

I’ll just put my scripts in my assets folder then. It’s not really a problem, I’m just trying to understand why it isn’t working (and in the process learn more about MODx ).

And what if you try

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Thanks, but no, it’s not working. This way the path becomes: www.arlingenarling.com/nieuw/nieuw/ufo.js, which isn’t right.

Definitely the base href issue -- you need one in your HEAD section if you want to reference things relative to the site root. Otherwise, the site being in a subdirectory, it’s assuming relative to the current folder location specified in the URI of the linked resource, which would be calculated improperly without the <base href="[(site_url)]" /> tag appearing in your head before any paths.