tomcat 8 jsp how to include / import a jsp page

Question

I am trying to include / import a header and a footer in my project from my servlet, but so far i havent managed to do so.

What i have tried

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        ServletContext sc = getServletContext();

//      Set request attributes
        request.setAttribute("header", sc.getResource("/includes/nav.jsp").toString());
        request.setAttribute("footer", sc.getResource("/includes/footer.jsp").toString());


//      Request dispatcher
        getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp").forward(request, response);
    }

Pass it to my index.jsp and than extract the paths

<c:import url="${header}"/>
<c:import url="${footer}"/>

But this does not work and give an internal 500 error.

tomcat 8 jsp javax.servlet.ServletException

I have also tried

sc.getRealPath("/includes/nav.jsp");
sc.getRealPath("/includes/footer.jsp");

But didnt work

What is the correct way to archive this. Is it passing a different value the import statement understand, if so how should i format it? Or should i use another method for archiving the import of the pages?

The file tree

Answer 1

file:/C:/Use ... etc is not the right way to write it.

would the relative path be "includes/footer.jsp"?

<jsp:include page=request.getServletContext().getRealPath("/")+'includes/footer.jsp' />;