JSF 2 with HTML pages instead of XHTML

Question

I am trying to get JSF setup to use files with a html extension.

If I use a .xhtml pattern (*.xhtml) and name my

Answer 1

However, if I change this to *.html and naming the files with a .html extension, I get 500 an error

Did you mean that you renamed the physical .xhtml files to .html? You should not have the need to do that. Rename them back to .xhtml and keep using the .html in URLs. The FacesServlet will automatically load the right XHTML file associated with the URL.

If you really need to give them the .html extension, then you'd need to change the default suffix to .html as well. Add the following entry to web.xml to achieve that:

    javax.faces.DEFAULT_SUFFIX
    .html

See also:

• JSF Facelets: Sometimes I see the URL is .jsf and sometimes .xhtml. Why?
• Is it possible to use JSF+Facelets with HTML 4/5?