Issues Linking CSS File to JSP

Question

I am trying to link a css to my jsp page but I keep getting a 404 page not found error.

href in the homepage.jsp: <link href="../resources/css/welcome.css" rel="stylesheet" />

file structure:
-->webapp
  -->img 
  -->resources
    -->css
      -->welcome.css
  -->WEB-INF
    -->views
      -->homepage.jsp

Answer 1

As you're using Spring MVC:

<link href="<c:url value="/resources/css/welcome.css" />" rel="stylesheet">

If you hate JSTL, you can use the “page context” variable to get the resources like this :

<link href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/resources/css/welcome.css" rel="stylesheet" >