Spring HTML URL View Not Found

Question

I have a simple question. In a Spring Boot Application I have a controller that works fine:

@GetMapping("/mycats")
public String getCats(){
    return "cats.html";
}

cats.html is a html file in resources/static/

When I change the action URL like this

@GetMapping("/mycats/my")
public String getCats(){
    return "cats.html";
}

Spring cannot find the html file anymore. I have tried many directory combinations and still no success. I don't use thymeleaf/jsp. Why is that happening?

I guest that is not good approach if you are using cats.html and you are not using jsp,jsf,etc.. then you can communicate via ajax. Don't use post-back operations — Gurkan İlleez
– Gurkan İlleez, Commented Mar 6, 2017 at 12:57

reos · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-06 16:44:59Z

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This is due to the context. When you use "mycats" it will look for the page in static directory. but when you use "mycats/my" it will look for the page in the static/my directory. This directory does not exists, so you get a 404 error.

You can make a little change to you controller. You can command it that look for in the previos directory with "../", but you always have to be only on directory deep.

@GetMapping("/mycats/my")
public String getCats(){
    return "../cats.html";
}

Or from any directory, you can tell spring that looks at root directory with "/"

@GetMapping("/mycats/my")
public String getCats(){
    return "/cats.html";
}

answered Mar 6, 2017 at 16:44

reos

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Teodor Dimitrov Over a year ago

Sorry for the late reply. It is like you say. The thing that confused me is that both routes work with thymeleaf and jsp. Since html is a static resource it makes sense to work like this. Thank you!

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