title: how to include a private local file in javascript project using bower
body: <p>i want to include a custom file as one of the bower dependency.</p>
  
  <p>I am have the following bower.json</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "name": "xyz",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "dependencies": {
      "sass-bootstrap": "~2.3.0",
      "requirejs": "~2.1.4",
      "modernizr": "~2.6.2",
      "jquery": "~1.9.1",
      "beautify": "file:/path/to/beautify.js"
    },
  
    "devDependencies": {}
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when i do bower install 
  it gives error :</p>
  
  <pre><code> bower beautify#*             ENOTFOUND Package file:/path/to/beautify.js not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>however when i open the same path in browser i get the right file.
  I have also checked the case sensitive of the path.</p>
  
  <p>Now can any one tell me what error i am doing? Is there any thing wrong with the syntax?</p>
  
  <p>Also tell me what if i want to add the same via bower cache. Where the global bower cache is stored in mac? And how can we register the url of private package so that i just need to put name of the package in <code>bower.json</code> and bower finds the file from the cache?</p>