Welcome file not working with html file in spring
html, jsp, maven, spring, welcome-file
Solution
Try adding `<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>` in your dispatcher-servlet.xml.
See here for details.
Problem
I have given my welcome file in web.xml But when running the application, it is showing 404 error on `http://172.16.2.16:8080/sampletest/` It is a spring application. web.xml ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.1"> <display-name>sampletest</display-name> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <!-- Spring MVC --> <servlet> <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> ``` I am using eclipse luna, java 8, tomcat 8 and maven framework. index.html file is directly under webapp folder and web.xml is under webapp/WEB-INF folder. If I use index.jsp instead of index.html, it is working. Then welcome page will load using `http://172.16.2.16:8080/sampletest/` The issue is only with welcome file. Otherwise spring configuration is working. `http://localhost:8080/sampletest/test/` will load the data from database. Error log in console ...................... ``` Jul 10, 2014 12:38:42 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 4963 ms Jul 10, 2014 12:38:42 PM org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet noHandlerFound WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/sampletest/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcher' ``` index.html ``` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Insert title here</title> </head> <body> </body> </html> ``` Dispatcher ``` <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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-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/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd"> <context:annotation-config /> <mvc:annotation-driven /> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" /> <context:component-scan base-package="com.sample.test" /> <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" /> <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"> <property name="packagesToScan"> <array> <value>com.sample.test.domain</value> </array> </property> <property name="hibernateProperties"> <props> <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</prop> <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">false</prop> <prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">false</prop> <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop> <prop key="hibernate.connection.characterEncoding">UTF-8</prop> <prop key="hibernate.connection.useUnicode">true</prop> <prop key="hibernate.connection.CharSet">UTF-8</prop> </props> </property> <property name="dataSource"> <ref bean="dataSource" /> </property> </bean> <bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource"> <property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" /> <property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sampletest?autoConnect=true" /> <property name="user" value="root" /> <property name="password" value="root" /> </bean> <bean id="hibernateTemplate" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate"> <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" /> </bean> <!-- HibernateTransactionManager --> <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"> <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" /> </bean> <bean id="openSessionInViewInterceptor" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor"> <property name="sessionFactory"> <ref local="sessionFactory" /> </property> <property name="flushModeName"> <value>FLUSH_AUTO</value> </property> </bean> </beans> ``` Controller ``` package com.sample.test.controller; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody; import com.sample.test.dto.Response; import com.sample.test.facade.AccelFlowFacade; @Controller public class SampleTestController { @Autowired @Qualifier("sampleTestFacade") SampleTestFacade sampleTestFacade; public SampleTestFacade getSampleTestFacade() { return sampleTestFacade; } public void setSampleTestFacade(SampleTestFacade sampleTestFacade) { this.sampleTestFacade= sampleTestFacade; } @RequestMapping(value = "/test", method = RequestMethod.GET) public @ResponseBody Response display() throws Exception { sampleTestFacade.disaply(); Response res = new Response(); return res; } } ```