I have a dynamic web project called BookShopWeb which I created in eclipse, with the following directory structure
/BookShopWeb/|
|--src
|---WebContent
|
|---META-INF
|----WEB-INF---web.xml
|
|--css--styles.css
|--jsp---index.jsp
In web.xml I set the start page as
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp</welcome-file>
In the index.jsp I am including the css as
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/styles.css" />
</head>
The index page when loaded however does not show the css info.I checked the element with firebug and it shows an error report
Apache Tomcat/6.0.29 - Error report..
The requested resource (/css/styles.css) is not available.
Any idea why this occurs?How can I correct this? thanks mark
Your directory structure should be
Also You named your css as styles.jsp which is not proper way to declare a css file.
In your web.xml:
In your jsp file:
I had the same problem; I tried everything and endly I did it by mysealf: I wrote in all JSPs ...
...
And in MYCLASS i created the public static String getCSS() {...}; From the IDE (Eclipse) i created a folder EXTENDING a folder in D:/... where I placed the css. In the function, the JSP executes the function, that reads the CSS with a given path (where u placed the css, like D:/PROJECT/css/SOMETHING.css) and returns it. So the JSP writes the value of MYCLASS.getCSS() in . The forwarded JSP contains the CSS in his style tags :)
It isn't the best way to do it, but it's the only thing that worked for me. I hope i helped u.
Use a BufferedReader to read the CSS file, it's obvious. !!And!! the server must read it ONCE; at the end of the function, save the read CSS in a variable, so u don't need to read it every time someone visits ur page ;)
Code:
Files in
/WEB-INF
folder are not public accessible. Put the CSS files one level up, in theWebContent
folder, and ensure that they are accessible by entering their URL straight in the browser address bar. Also, the URL which you specify in the<link href>
must be relative to the request URL (which you see in the browser address bar when opening the JSP), not to its location on the server disk file system. The best approach is to make it domain-relative by starting with a forward slash/
.or a bit more dynamically so that you don't need to change your JSPs everytime whenever you change the context path
JSP files can be kept in
/WEB-INF
, but this way they are only accessible through a dispatching servlet, either homegrown by extendingHttpServlet
or implicitly by the servletcontainer such as the<welcome-file>
.See also: