link from html to jsp

java html jsp href

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Solution 1

Files in /WEB-INF folder are not publicly accessible without using a front controller servlet or a specific tag like <jsp:include> which does either a RequestDispatcher#forward() or RequestDispatcher#include().

If you need to access a JSP file directly by URL, then you should not be placing the JSP in /WEB-INF folder. Put it outside the /WEB-INF folder

WebContent
 |-- forms
 |    |-- CreateNewCustomer.html
 |    |-- CustomerMenu.html
 |    `-- CustomerMenu.jsp
 |-- WEB-INF
 :    :

and fix the link accordingly.

<a href="forms/CustomerMenu.jsp">Test new</a>

Solution 2

WEB-INF folder is not accessible outside. You will either need to move the jsp outside of WEB-INF or use forward request to forward to the jsp.

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Updated on August 22, 2022

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URL87 almost 2 years

In dynamic Web Project I have - default.html page

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./Styles/Site.css" type="text/css" />
<title>Create new customer</title>
</head>
<body>
    <a href="\WEB-INF\forms\CustomerMenu.jsp">Test new</a>

</body>
</html>

I have also the CustomerMenu.jsp page -

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./Styles/Site.css" type="text/css" />
<title>Create new customer</title>
</head>
<body>
    // Table ..
</body>
</html>

The pages hierarchy is as the snapshot -

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When I press on the link in default.html I get error message

- HTTP Status 404 - 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

type Status report

message 

description The requested resource () is not available.