Spring-MVC : Redirect to html page

Question

Here is the code structure

Controller

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class indexController {

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

web.xml

although my views folder contains index.html but still when i run the project on server, browser shows 404 error.

please help

** because of tag i am not able to post the code of web.xml hence its a screenshot

Answer 1

web container treat .html format as static file , they don't render them but .jsp is their know extension , and they try to render that. So, If you put html files under, lets say static folder static/views/html/yourHtml.html and put something like this in configuration

 mvc:resources mapping="/html/**" location="/static/views/html/"

It should work then. This way they will be treated as resources files and they can be served. Hope it helps.