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No visible cause for "Unexpected token ILLEGAL"

I'm getting this JavaScript error on my console:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

This is my code:

var foo = 'bar';

It's super simple, as you can see. How could it be causing a syntax error?

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You literally saved my day. I've struggled with Nginx + Vagrant for a whole evening, and this solved it.
– fradeve
Commented Jul 9, 2014 at 15:47
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Did NOT expect this to be the right answer (for me) but it was, thanks so much.
– Belladonna
Commented Jul 31, 2014 at 19:45
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Actually, it stopped working. Then again there're multiple layers of symlinking at play here so I just undid what I could.
– Belladonna
Commented Aug 1, 2014 at 18:24
Thanks - I was in a vagrant box with nginx. I've also seen this issue on similar Apache setups.
– Cameron
Commented Jul 28, 2015 at 22:49
for apache: EnableSendfile Off
– jamlee
Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 13:25

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