HTTP status - 404 Resource not found exception in JSP

Question

I have been stuck up with running hello world program in JSP.When i start my server it showing resource not found exception. please help me to solve this problem. I have mentioned my code below

index.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
    <display-name>MySample</display-name>
    <welcome-file-list>

        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>

    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

How are you accessing `index.jsp`? I mean URL. Please share directory structure to help you further. — Aniket Kulkarni, Apr 03 '14 at 06:18
inside webcontent folder--> inside web-inf folder-->i have mentioned index.jsp — Giridharan, Apr 03 '14 at 06:24
That is where you went wrong. You have to put `index.jsp` inside WebContent folder not in WEB-INF. — Aniket Kulkarni, Apr 03 '14 at 06:26
@Ankiet Kulkarni: It works thanks for identifying my mistake — Giridharan, Apr 03 '14 at 06:31

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

From comments above you had placed file in wrong folder.

Put your index.jsp file inside WebContent folder. Do not put in WEB-INF folder.

WebContent folder

The mandatory location of all Web resources, including HTML, JSP, graphic files, and so on.

If the files are not placed in this directory (or in a subdirectory structure under this directory), the files will not be available when the application is executed on a server.

The Web content folder represents the contents of the WAR file that will be deployed to the server. Any files not under the Web content folder are considered development-time resources (for example, .java files, .sql files, and .mif files), and are not deployed when the project is unit tested or published.

Reference

Dynamic Web projects and applications directory structure in Eclipse IDE

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 06:17

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Your Welcome index file should start with "/index.jsp" starting with slash if it is directly inside WebContent directory. If it is inside some dirctory like JSP it should be like /JSP/index.jsp

answered Apr 03 '14 at 06:17

Karthigeyan Vellasamy

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inside webcontent folder--> inside web-inf folder-->i have mentioned index.jsp – Giridharan Apr 03 '14 at 06:20
its showing 404 only karthi – Giridharan Apr 03 '14 at 06:22
@Giridharan which IDE your are using? – Santhosh Apr 03 '14 at 06:23
It should work just add index.jsp it should work not WEB-INF is needed just index.jsp or /index.jsp will work – Karthigeyan Vellasamy Apr 03 '14 at 06:25

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 03 '14 at 06:16

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Your directory structure is important that where you have placed the file and provide that path to welcome-file. hope it helps

answered Apr 03 '14 at 06:16

Sanjay Rabari

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inside webcontent folder--> inside web-inf folder-->i have mentioned index.jsp.. I have mentioned WEB-INF/index.jsp but its showing 404 only – Giridharan Apr 03 '14 at 06:23
provide that index.jsp in build path. – Sanjay Rabari Apr 03 '14 at 06:25

HTTP status - 404 Resource not found exception in JSP

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WebContent folder

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