Magento Admin Menu Not Working (js 404 error)

While i was installing a Magento oscommerce platform I encountered a problem, a new problem i might add, because i never saw it before. I’ve worked before with Magento but never had any issues. This time, after getting it up and running i noticed that my admin menu wasn’t working , the options weren’t dropping down as usual.

You obviously can’t work without a menu so i started googling the issue. The first page i looked into gave some indications but nothing clear, and those guys we’re having the problem on ver 1.0 of Magento which is really old.

After trying and testing various methods i finally got it to work, and here is how i did it:

• step1: replace app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php with this head.php
• step2: chmod 755 the js/ folder, and folders within.
• step3: chmod 644 the javascript files inside js/lib/
• step4: chmod 644 js/index.php
• step5: there is no step 5  your menu is now working