Not displaying images in Spring MVC

Question

I know this question has been asked many times, but I\'m not able to figure out what the problem is. I have the images folder under the src/main/webapp folder (this a maven

Answer 1

The above suggestions worked for me as well. But if anyone else has trouble with the associated namespace, I had to add the mvc portion to mvc-dispatcher-serlvet.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd ">

...

<mvc:annotation-driven /> 
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />

Answer 2

Try adding the following resources declaration to your Spring configuration:

<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /images/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/images directory -->
<resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />    

Alternatively, and more common, is to have a resources folder which contains all your resources (images, css, js, etc...), broken out by sub-directories.

Your configuration would then look like:

<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

And your resources would be referenced as follows:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<c:url value="/resources/css/screen.css" />" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="<c:url value="/resources/js/jquery-1.6.4.min.js" />"></script>
<img src="<c:url value="/resources/images/left_arrow.png" />" alt="" />

Answer 3

Please follow the steps in this picture.. :)

Step 1: Create a folder in webapp but not in WEB-INF

Create Resources then images then store your image. webapp/resources/images/fileName.jpg

Step 2: Now that you have created your folders

Let us map the path you created in the servlet configuration file where we deal with mapping of the paths Add this code : <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/*" location="/resources/" />

Step 3: Add the code for accessing the image resource from the location you created in step 1: <img src="/attendance/resources/images/logo.png" width="100px" height="100px">

Answer 4

You just need to add a reference your image folder on Spring MVC configuration file

WEB-INF/spring-context.xml:

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

Answer 5

If Using annotation then make sure to user

<mvc:annotation-driven/>

with resources

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

else annotaion controller will not work

Answer 6

If you want to keep the static resources outside the WEB-INF folders in your web root and want the container to handle the static resource requests, you should add this to your application context file:

<mvc:default-servlet-handler />

The suggestion by @BeauGrantham to add resources mapping will also work.