Mapping URL in Spring MVC

Question

I have the following navigation links

<li><a href="account">My Account</a></li>
<li><a href="ewallet/register">Register E-Wallet</a></li>

Both links refer to a page template which contains an img element as follows

<img src="resources/images/tdyslogo.png" alt="logo" width="150px" border="0">

The issues:

upon clicking the second link, the img element is resolving to wrong URL that is /business/ewallet/resources/images/tdyslogo.png thus image not loaded
when I tried to access other navigation links, the URL also resolving to wrong url /business/ewallet/account hence I get 404 upon clicking

I tried to change my mvc:resources to <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="resources/" /> in order to map any URL containing resources to the correct resources folder but no avail.

Based on Absolute vs relative URLs it seems like I need to use relative or absolute URL correctly. If this is correct, how can I fix it ?

NimChimpsky · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-06T09:47:55.970

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You would conventionally have all the images in a static resources that is under the root, so

<img src="<c:url value='/resources/images/tdyslogo.png'/>" alt="logo" width="150px" border="0">

Should work, using jsp c tag, which is included like below :

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

edited Aug 06 '14 at 09:47

answered Aug 06 '14 at 09:30

NimChimpsky

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The image still fail to load. The only way to make it visible after pressing the second link is by changing the src to `` – abiieez Aug 06 '14 at 09:33
have altered answer to use the c url jsp tag – NimChimpsky Aug 06 '14 at 09:39
the generated img element is wrong (``) – abiieez Aug 06 '14 at 09:42
Thanks for pointing that out. By the way the second issue still goes unanswered. Maybe I should create a separate question – abiieez Aug 06 '14 at 09:51
the c:url is relative, oh the /business/ewallet/account is not what you want ? I use c:url for everything, links images etc – NimChimpsky Aug 06 '14 at 09:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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If you are using tomcat server then try with default servlet to serve static resoruces directly.

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/resources/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Better use c:url and use prefix / in the value to make the url relative the context path.

<img id="logo" src="<c:url value='/resources/images/logo.png'/>" />

Dynamic project structure:

WebContent
         |
         |__resources
         |          |
         |          |__images
         |                   |
         |                   |__logo.png
         |
         |__WEB-INF
                  |
                  |__web.xml

Mapping URL in Spring MVC

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