image not loading in jsp deployed inside webapps ROOT folder

Question

When i deploy the war file named 'myapp.war' inside the tomcat 6 webapps folder the images in jsp are loading properly whereas if i deploy it inside webapps/ROOT folder the images are not loading in jsp.

war file structure

-- myapp
- WEB-INF
-jsp
-images

In the jsp page the image inside the images folder are called like

<img src="images/img1.png"/>

How do you reference the image files? Why not show us part of your JSPs? — f_puras, Oct 09 '12 at 19:46
This's a small piece of code from the jsp '

<%=resource1.getString("phone.number1")%>

' — Giriraj AR, Oct 10 '12 at 06:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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You should use an absolute path for referencing images. If you include the contextPath in it, the link should work even if your application path changes. Try

<img src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/images/mobile.png" height="34" width="38" alt="mobile" />

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Oct 10 '12 at 11:35

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 11 '12 at 06:24

I have found the solution finally.

What happens is when the code is deployed inside ROOT or the war deployed inside webapp and made as ROOT application by changing the context in tomcat server.xml

in either way tomcat is considering like the complete war contents is directly inside the tomcat webapp folder .

I was already having a folder named images directly inside webapps (for some other purpose) because of this the images folder was overridden . when i removed/renamed that folder the expected images (the images called from jsp) started appearing.

image not loading in jsp deployed inside webapps ROOT folder

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