Spring application root variable

java, jsp, jsp-tags, spring, spring-mvc

Solution

You can use `${pageContext.request.contextPath}`. For example, to get `href = "/my-app/somePage"`, use:

<a href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/somePage">

However, this approach doesn't support URL rewriting required to maintain sessions in the case of disabled cookies. So, the better way to do it is JSTL's `<c:url/>` tag:

<%@ taglib prefix = "c" uri = "http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
...
<a href="<c:url value = '/somePage' />">

Problem

I access my Spring application right now as follows: ``` http://localhost:8080/my-app ``` In my JSPs I'd like to have access to my application root instead of hardcoding hyperlinks to the homepage as `<a href="/my-app">`. Is there some sort of variable that I can access in my jsps to point to the application root? Thanks

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