Spring MVC static resources not loading

Question

I'm working on a spring-mvc application which required to load static location from webapp folder and file system. I followed documentation, this answer and many more tutorials and configured following.

    <mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/img/" cache-period="10000"/>
    <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="file://D:/my-apps/sample-mvc/images/" cache-period="10000"/>

    <mvc:annotation-driven/>

Directory structure is as follows.

web.xml ->

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
     version="2.5">

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <!-- Configuration location for servlet context -->
        <param-value>classpath:mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jpg</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.png</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.gif</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.woff</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.woff2</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <!-- Configuration location for main application context -->
    <param-value>
        classpath:application-context.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>

But it's not serving any file in the given two URLs. (localhost:8080/sample-mvc-app/images/a1-img-001.jpg, or localhost:8080/sample-mvc-app/resources/test-uploaded-img-1.jpg)

Testing further I found out that, if I would use the URL with original directory name (localhost:8080/sample-mvc-app/img/a1-img-001.jpg) the image is loading in the browser.

Could anyone please help me to find out whats wrong here?

Additionally, Servlet container: tomcat

Yasitha Thilakaratne Yasitha Thilakaratne · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-25T11:46:04

Try removing default servlet mappings from web.xml. Default servlet is an servlet which is created in every web app. In tomcat it serves static resources.

Spring MVC static resources not loading

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