Basic Spring MVC config: PageNotFound using InternalResourceViewResolver

Question

I'm trying to get a first Spring 3 MVC setup running.

My app is running on tomcat, with in the server context of "grapevine"

For the purposes of testing, I'm trying to get requests from http://localhost:8080/grapevine/test to render the contents of WEB-INF/jsp/noSuchInvitation.jsp

When I try this, I'm getting a 404 , and the logs suggest that my jsp isn't present:

WARN  org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound  - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/grapevine/WEB-INF/jsp/noSuchInvitation.jsp] in DispatcherServlet with name 'grapevine'

I must have mis-configured this somewhere, but I can't see what I've done wrong.

Here's all the relevant snippets.

Web.xml:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>grapevine</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>grapevine</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

From my context:

<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>

Controller:

@Controller
public class ParticipantInvitationController {

@RequestMapping("/test")
public ModelAndView test()
{
    return new ModelAndView("noSuchInvitation");
}

Log:

DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet  - Rendering view [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView: name 'noSuchInvitation'; URL [/WEB-INF/jsp/noSuchInvitation.jsp]] in DispatcherServlet with name 'grapevine'
DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView  - Forwarding to resource [/WEB-INF/jsp/noSuchInvitation.jsp] in InternalResourceView 'noSuchInvitation'
DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet  - DispatcherServlet with name 'grapevine' processing GET request for [/grapevine/WEB-INF/jsp/noSuchInvitation.jsp]
WARN  org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound  - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/grapevine/WEB-INF/jsp/noSuchInvitation.jsp] in DispatcherServlet with name 'grapevine'
DEBUG org.springframework.security.web.context.HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository  - SecurityContext contents are anonymous - context will not be stored in HttpSession. 
DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet  - Successfully completed request

Answer 1

This is because the <url-pattern> in your web.xml is too "wide". A value of /* means that the servlet is configured to receive all requests, and that includes the request from the servlet to the JSP. The error message you're seeing is from DispatcherServlet , which is receiving its own forwarded request.

You should pick a more specific <url-pattern> , eg <url-pattern>/xyz/*</url-pattern> , so that your URL then becomes http://localhost:8080/grapevine/xyz/test , and then it should work fine.

Answer 2

Just replace /* to / as your url-pattern . It will work...

Answer 3

Solution 1 : You can register your servlet at *.html and *.json (or xml, gif, png...):

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>RestServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
       org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>RestServlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
  <url-pattern>*.json</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

Solution 2 : If you want to keep your servlet mapped at /* , add the following to your spring.xml file:

<mvc:default-servlet-handler/> 

And this to your web.xml file:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/WEB-INF/jsp/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

The rationale is explained here: spring , web.xml . This will register an explicit handler for JSP pages with greater precedence than /* .

Answer 4

BEWARE: This could be a misleading error message. It just happened to me.

Even thought the error message unexpectedly contains the /ContextName/... at the beginning of the path, it could still be a misspelling in either the InternalResourceViewResolver prefix:

<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF-typo-Here/jsp/"/>

or the file path itself.

Now that I fixed my misspelling, it works fine. I don't know why the context shows in the error message, and it really caused me to ignore my silly typo and attempting to try the wonderful other contributions to this question. Don't let it happen to you!

BTW, I am using Spring 4.0.0 release.

Answer 5

对我来说，我通过使用.jsp模板而不仅仅是.html解决了这个问题。