Images in WAR file

Question

I know this immediately sounds like the age old question but it's really not. In Eclipse under WebContent I have images, jsp, WEB-INF and META-INF. When I test using the Tomcat instance inside Eclipse the page tests fine. The image shows on the page and no problems. When I deploy the war file to Tomcat I check the application directory under webapps of Tomcat and it has css, images, jsp, META-INF and WEB-INF in the root. And the png file is definitely under the images directory. I still get a 404 when I attempt to test the page using a separate instance of Tomcat running at the command prompt.

The html is:

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

I have tried adding a "/" in front of images just in case. That didn't work either.

To clarify what I think @GrigoriyDidorenko is saying: is the 404 in response to the page itself, or the (separate) HTTP request that the browser makes for the image? — E-Riz, Aug 02 '16 at 20:04
For me it's clear that he's saying that request for image (not whole page) returns 404. — Krzysztof Atłasik, Aug 02 '16 at 20:17

Krzysztof Atłasik · Answer 1 · 2016-08-02T20:55:13.920

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You can try to use contextPath.

<img src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/images/logo.png">

You could also set base tag:

<base href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}">

and then your tags with relative paths should work.

edited Aug 02 '16 at 20:55

answered Aug 02 '16 at 20:16

Krzysztof Atłasik

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Images in WAR file

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