In case you use spring boot, you must not set the properties spring.mvc.view.prefix and spring.mvc.view.suffix in your application.properties file, instead configure the bean ViewResolver from a configuration class.
application.properties
# Configured in @Configuration GuestNav
#spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/views/
#spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp
# Live reload
spring.devtools.restart.additional-paths=.
# Better logging
server.tomcat.accesslog.directory=logs
server.tomcat.accesslog.file-date-format=yyyy-MM-dd
server.tomcat.accesslog.prefix=access_log
server.tomcat.accesslog.suffix=.log
Main method
@SpringBootApplication
public class WebApp extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
return application.sources(WebApp.class);
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
SpringApplication.run(WebApp.class, args);
}
}
Configuration class
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class DispatcherConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
registry.addResourceHandler("/views/**").addResourceLocations("/views/");
}
@Bean
public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
viewResolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/notinuse/");
viewResolver.setSuffix("");
return viewResolver;
}
}
A controller class
@Controller
public class GuestNav {
@GetMapping("/")
public String home() {
return "forward:/views/guest/index.html";
}
}
You must place your files in the directory /webapp/views/guest/index.html, be careful, the webapp directory is outside of the resources directory.
In this way you may use the url patterns of spring-mvc but serve static context.
