What is the easiest method for me to safely move all html/js/images folders under the WEB-INF without breaking all links/forwarding to resources in these folders and make sure these resources are not directly accessible? You’re making a thiniking mistake here. HTML/JS/image (and CSS) resources need to be directly accessible anyway. For JSPs the story is … Read more
This should have nothing to do with eclipse and m2eclipse, and optionally for better support – m2e-wtp. Also, you don’t need copy-dependencies. Here are a few possible reasons: you should invoke mvn package (or right-click > maven > package) and obtain a war file – the <packaging> (in the pom) must be war your dependencies … Read more
I want to put my JSF 2.0 xhtml files under WEB-INF\jsf. How do I access them then? You cannot. Files in /WEB-INF folder are not directly accessible. There are two options to workaround the problem of JSF source files being public accessible. Map the FacesServlet on *.xhtml instead of *.jsf. Or, restrict direct access on … Read more
Files in /WEB-INF folder are not public accessible. Put the CSS files one level up, in the WebContent folder, and ensure that they are accessible by entering their URL straight in the browser address bar. Also, the URL which you specify in the <link href> must be relative to the request URL (which you see … Read more
Files in /WEB-INF folder are indeed not publicly accessible by enduser. So you cannot have something like http://localhost:8080/contextname/WEB-INF/some.xhtml. That would be a potential security hole as the enduser would be able to view among others /WEB-INF/web.xml and so on. You can however use the /WEB-INF folder to put master template files, include files and tag … Read more
The Servlet 2.4 specification says this about WEB-INF (page 70): A special directory exists within the application hierarchy named WEB-INF. This directory contains all things related to the application that aren’t in the document root of the application. The WEB-INF node is not part of the public document tree of the application. No file contained … Read more
404 simply means “Not Found”. Either the URL is wrong (note: case sensitive!), or the resource is not there where you think it is. Just verify the URL and/or verify if the resource is there where you’d expect it to be. You placed sample.jsp in /WEB-INF folder. This way it is not publicly accessible without … Read more