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Asked: 2026-06-18T21:12:41+00:00

I’m trying to use Apache Tiles (version 3) in a spring project. As far

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I’m trying to use Apache Tiles (version 3) in a spring project. As far as I can see, all tiles-files should be placed somewhere under WEB-INF directory. I’m not sure about this, this is just my observation: when I set war/WEB-INF/tiles/*.jsp it’s ok, when I set war/tiles/*.jsp (and change my tiles-defs.xml to point new directory) I get

org.apache.tiles.request.render.CannotRenderException: ServletException including path '/tiles/basic.jsp'.

All tutorials I found on the web show that tiles directory is under WEB-INF\. Can someone make clear whether tiles directory have to be under WEB-INF (or maybe if other jsp files have to be there as well)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No it doesn’t have to be in WEB-INF, but it is actually the recommended way, moreover this is absolutely not Tiles specific, this is a general JSP/Java EE recommendation. (because of security reasons, the WEB-INF folder is not accessible directly)

    E.g. here is a sample here where jsps our outside WEB-INF.

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