How to add HTML files to Spring MVC

Question

I was trying to add some HTML files to the spring project that I was working on. Initially, the project was working fine with JSP files.

This is the folder structure that I'm following: /WEB-INF/views/jsp/hello.jsp

Spring web configuration is as follows:

@Bean
public InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver() {
    InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
    viewResolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
    viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/jsp");
    viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
    return viewResolver;
}

I tried to replace it with HTML as follows:

@Bean
public InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver() {
    InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
    viewResolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
    viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/static/html/");
    viewResolver.setSuffix(".html");
    return viewResolver;
}

And the request mapping is as follows:

@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String myMethod(ModelMap model) {
    return "index";
}

Everything is working fine as long as the page is a JSP file. When changed to HTML, it'll start giving errors.

This is the log entry:

15-Dec-2016 11:54:57.408 WARNING [http-apr-9999-exec-2] org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound.noHandlerFound No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/WEB-INF/views/html/index.html] in DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcher'

The code you are showing is launching hello.html, but in log you are displaying index.html. Do you have index.html file in your folder? — Rajashekhar
@Rajashekhar I added the working piece of code by mistake. It's actually index.html. I've edited it in the question. Thanks for pointing it out. — Anand MP

Úrsula Úrsula · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-20T21:52:14

maybe you need the following code in file dispatcher-servlet.xml

<!-- JSP VIEW RESOLVER -->
<bean id="jspViewResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"></property>
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"></property>
</bean>

How to add HTML files to Spring MVC

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