Why i can't see my js file from browser - tomcat 7

Question

I deployed my ROOT.war to Tomcat webapps folder. When I'm writing in a web browser address www.exampleaddress.com I can see index.jsp file.

But in the same folder is file.js. I Would like to see it when I write address: www.exampleaddress.com/file.js but now i can see only empty white page without any code. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can't place JS files or any publicly accessible data inside the WEB-INF folder. You need a JS folder in the same directory as your WEB-INF folder and that is where you place them. The same goes for your .css files and your images. None of that can be seen from inside WEB-INF.

/WebApp/CSS/index.css

/WebApp/JS/index.js

/WebApp/WEB-INF/index.jsp

/WebApp/Images/logo.png