Problem with moving JSPs under WEB-INF directory

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I am facing a problem when I move my JSP files along with CSS and JS files under WEB-INF/web/ directory. The problem is that, when a JSP page loads, it does not load CSS and JS files. Please help if you have any idea about it.

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Umar

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '09 at 05:16

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Unless you want to write controllers to serve the css/js files in the WEB-INF folder, you will need to move those files out of WEB-INF so that they can be served as static files by the app server.

answered Sep 02 '09 at 05:16

Jason Fritcher

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 02 '09 at 05:10

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WEB-INF is not web accessible, you need to put css/js into public_html(www) as browser loads them through http.

answered Sep 02 '09 at 05:10

serg

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 12:07

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To access 'WEB-INF' use

getServletContext().getRealPath("/WEB-INF/...");

answered Jun 04 '13 at 12:07

kamal

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 11 '11 at 22:44

You can use the contextPath to retrieve any file from the foot folder,this way can work with files inside and outside WEB-INF folder.

You can make like this

<link rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/fromStyle.css" type="text/css">

Problem with moving JSPs under WEB-INF directory

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