spring mvc:resources tag and 404 error
java, spring
Solution
The answer is here:
Using <mvc:resources .../> in spring 3 causes all other views to stop working
Quoting the author: "`<mvc:resources>` requires `<mvc:annotation-driven>` (or explicitly declared handler mappings, etc)."
That did the trick for me.
Problem
I'm trying to use tag `<mvc:resources>` this is my project structure what I want is to access to javascript in js folder and css in styles folder however, whenever I add this to my dispatcher-servlet.xml ``` <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/"/> ``` I got error 404, when run the project (the project will redirect to login.htm which is login.jsp page) this is my dispatcher-servlet.xml code ``` <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="com.swcommodities.wsmill.controller"/> <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/"/> <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" p:prefix="/WEB-INF/" p:suffix=".jsp" /> <tx:annotation-driven/> . . . </beans> ``` this is web.xml ``` <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <servlet> <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout> 30 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> ``` I don't know why I delete the line `<mvc:resources...` the project run correctly, but when add this one to the project, I get 404 error immediately. I think this one make some conflict with the current project.