Spring MVC open index.jsp on "/"

Question

How can I open index.jsp using this url http://localhost:8080/myApp/and how can I use an hyperlink like this <a href="/">HOME</a> and go to index.jsp (http://localhost:8080/myApp/)?

Here's my web.xml:

<display-name>myApp</display-name>

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>classpath:spring/application-config.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>myApp</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
       org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>myApp</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

And here is my myApp-servlet.xml:

<context:component-scan base-package="org.myApp.com" />

<bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>

Thanks in advance!

Solution

Just add a @Controller with an appropriate handler method

@Controller
public class RootController {
    @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String root() {
        return "index";
    }
}

assuming index.jsp is in /WEB-INF/view.

Comments

[bsferreira]

It works if a put in the url localhost:8080/myApp but not on the hyperlink

[Sotirios Delimanolis]

@user3476247 In a hyperlink, the single / means an absolute path relative to the host. That means it will do localhost:8080/, not localhost:8080/myapp. You need to provide the context path either directly or dynamically with ${pageContext.request.contextPath}.

[bsferreira]

Problem solved. But now you make me wonder why my <a href="about">ABOUT</a> element doesn't need the context path :D

[Sotirios Delimanolis]

@user3476247 Because there is no preceding /. So when the browser generates the path to send the request to, it considers that value as relative to your current URL, replacing the last path element with your value. So href="somepath/more" when you're at at localhost:8080/myapp/users/admins, the browser will send the request to localhost:8080/myapp/users/somepath/more.