I have a Spring Boot project which has a MainMenu.jsp which is as follows:
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/style.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<div class="navheader">
<h2>Test</h2>
<c:if test="${pageContext.request.userPrincipal.name != null}">
<form id="logoutForm" method="POST" action="${contextPath}/logout">
<input type="hidden" name="${_csrf.parameterName}" value="${_csrf.token}"/>
</form>
<h2>Welcome ${pageContext.request.userPrincipal.name} | <a onclick="document.forms['logoutForm'].submit()">Logout</a></h2>
</c:if>
</div>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Groups</li>
<li>Frameworks</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
I'm using a style.css file located under resources/static/css, and my browser locates it successfully as it does not return a 404 error. However any changes I make are not reflected - it appears to be using an older version of the CSS. I suspect it is using the CSS from style.css before I changed the style sheet's href from
"/css/style.css" to "${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/style.css"
If the path is correct, why isn't it applying my CSS? If the path isn't correct, why is it using an older version and not giving a 404 for not finding the file?
Edit: my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>samuelB</groupId>
<artifactId>capripol</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Capripol</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.17</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
