Welcome file not working with html file in spring

Question

I have given my welcome file in web.xml But when running the application, it is showing 404 error on http://172.16.2.16:8080/sampletest/

It is a spring

Answer 1

You have mapped all your incoming requests to the dispatcher here,

    dispatcher
    /

So all your URL requests for the application goes inside the dispatcher as '/' maps all incoming requests . check for the stacktraces in your application server log

update:

You get the below warning because there are no handler for the '/' pattern,

WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/AccelFlow/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcher'

You can do either of below options ,

1. Map a url with '/' to the controller
2. Add a specific URL pattern to the spring dispatcher such as .htm or .do as you wish

Modify your web.xml,

        dispatcher
        *.htm
      

And in your controller,

@RequestMapping(value = "/test.htm", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody Response display() throws Exception {
    accelFlowFacade.disaply();
    Response res = new Response();
    return res;
}