Spring with no view resolver but plain html

Question

I'm trying to configure Spring to use only my html files instead of jsp view resolver but can't get it to work. I tried many different configurations and I simply want to have redirection to /WEB-INF/views/index.html everytime localhost:8080/ is entered. Now what I have in my tomcat console is:

org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/WEB-INF/views/index.html] in DispatcherServlet with name 'appServlet'.

here's my servlet-context.xml snippet.

<beans:bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <beans:property name="prefix" value="WEB-INF/views/" />
    <beans:property name="suffix" value="" />
</beans:bean>
<view-controller path="/" view-name="index.html"/>

Any suggestions what am I missing?

EDIT- web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets 
    and Filters -->
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<!-- Processes application requests -->
<servlet>

    <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>/WEB-INF/views/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list> 

Answer 1

I know this is an older question so this is for anyone who comes here now. Spring is auto-configured to pick up your views as long as your file paths are correct, so you should not have to do any spring webmvc configuration .

I ran into this issue in Intellij and simply had to restart the application and the error was gone. Hope someone sees this and doesn't spend hours working on this.

Answer 2

This error

org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/WEB-INF/views/index.html] in DispatcherServlet with name 'appServlet'.

is telling us that you are actually going to the following address

localhost:8080/WEB-INF/views/index.html

which obviously makes no sense.

If you want

to have redirection to /WEB-INF/views/index.html everytime localhost:8080/ is entered

add a welcome file to your deployment descriptor.

<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>WEB-INF/views/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

Answer 3

Try to add a / to the prefix.

<beans:bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
    <beans:property name="suffix" value="" />
</beans:bean>
<view-controller path="/" view-name="index.html"/>