web.xml error-page 404 error path

Question

I've the following web.xml:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>dispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>classpath:spring/mvc-config.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/index.html</location>
</error-page>

When I go to localhost:port/myapplication/someincorrecturl it properly redirects me to index.html file. But when I go to localhost:port/myapplication/someincorrecturl1/someincorrecturl2 the application gives me a 404 error. How can I solve the problem for any incorrect URL with more than one path?

Answer 1

If you have deployed your application on Tomcat and you are just typing localhost or localhost:port it won't redirect to your application.

You can access by typing localhost:port/YourProjectName. It is root of your project and if you want to access any other resource you can access it by localhost:port/YourProjectName/OtherResource. If OtherResource is not present and you have mapped 404 error with index.jsp it will redirect it to index.jsp.

You are giving both root and subpath wrongly.