How can I serve static html from spring boot?

Question

I ran the spring-boot-sample-web-static project from here, made this alteration to the pom

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Answer 1

In Spring boot, /META-INF/resources/, /resources/, static/ and public/ directories are available to serve static contents.

So you can create a static/ or public/ directory under resources/ directory and put your static contents there. And they will be accessible by: http://localhost:8080/your-file.ext. (assuming the server.port is 8080)

You can customize these directories using spring.resources.static-locations in the application.properties.

For example:

spring.resources.static-locations=classpath:/custom/

Now you can use custom/ folder under resources/ to serve static files.

Update:

This is also possible using java config:

@Configuration
public class StaticConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addResourceHandler("/static/**").addResourceLocations("classpath:/custom/");
    }
}

This confugration maps contents of custom directory to the http://localhost:8080/static/** url.