Can't access to WEB-INF/folder/folder/file.jsp

java eclipse jsp tomcat web-inf
Kotaw picture Kotaw · Apr 29, 2014 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I'm developing a little servlet with eclipse on a Tomcat server.

From this servlet I want to include some jsp files, it works perfectly for the file

WEB-INF/website/NewFile.jsp

But when I try to get a jsp file in

/WEB-INF/website/common

I get the 404 not found exception.
I've some other files in the "common" folder and I can get access to them.
So I guess that eclipse doesn't find the jsp in this folder when it comes to compile them.
I suppose that I have to somehow change the "jsp searching path" of the eclipse project but I don't know how to do

Answer

Asif Bhutto picture Asif Bhutto · Apr 29, 2014

You cannot access files under WEB-INF folder directly.Container will look for classes in WEB-INF/classes and jsp files under WEB-INF can be included by other JSP/servlets,but any browser requesting resources down there will get a 404 response

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