Question

I config spring and map it to *.htm, but it also applied to real .htm files. so i cannot access the real static *.htm in my web application. what should i config spring to solve the issue? thanks!

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>systemdispatcher</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping> 

if i try to access the static htm file like index.htm, it will show a 404 error. how can i configure the spring to solve the problem? thanks!

Answer 1

I agree with the solution given by @Bozho.

But there is another way to do it also. You can specify the ResourceHandler that can serve the static contents from a specific path of your application without transfering the request to dispatcher servlet.

Try doing following configuration in your servlet xml file.

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

Here you can replace the path where your static .htm files are.

Hope this helps you.
Cheers.