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Asked: 2026-06-12T22:38:12+00:00

I am relatively new to web development, and I am trying to develop a

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I am relatively new to web development, and I am trying to develop a web application using Spring MVC 3.0.5 on WebLogic 10.3.4.

I’d like my JSPs to use external CSS files. For example, I have a JSP file with the following:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

<LINK href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/resources/css/ptostyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<title>Register</title>
</head>

Unfortunately, the CSS file doesn’t seem to get loaded. I have tried putting it in various places. The current directory structure looks like:

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Relevant portions of my web.xml include:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>springDispatcher</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/config/spring-context.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>springDispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.ResourceServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Resource Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>WebContent/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Any suggestions, including debugging strategies would be much appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I managed to access my CSS by doing the following:

    1. I moved my resources folder directly under WebContent, as suggested
      by Sean
    2. I commented out the portions of web.xml that involved the
      ResourceServlet.

    3. I added the following line to spring-context.xml

      <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

    This article discusses some other issues and workarounds that may be applicable to a WebLogic deployment. There appears to be a bug in the implementation of Spring 3.0.5 that can cause problems delivering static resources.

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