Unable to access Images inside a War file

Question

I have a war file that I have deployed which contains an images folder in the WEB-APP directory. I tried accessing the images stored in the folder using "localhost:8080/testapp/images/image1.jpg" but I am getting a 404 response. Can someone please help me with this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your images directory needs to be a sibling of WEB-INF, not a child of it. Try this:

your-war-file.war
  |-images/
  |   |-image1.jpg
  |   |-image2.jpg
  |   `-image3.jpg
  |-WEB-INF/
  |   |-classes/
  |   |-lib/
  |   `-web.xml
  |-index.html
  `-404.html

Answer 2

Assuming you have your folder 'images' in the base directory for this web app (on the same level as 'META-INF' and 'WEB-INF' catalogs), the path seems correct. Maybe check that you haven't put 'images' folder inside 'WEB-INF' where it is not accessible? If that doesn't work, try accessing some other file inside your web app to check that it was deployed on server.

Answer 3

Clients may not directly access artifacts under WEB-INF.

Put them in a location directly accessible if you're not streaming them from an app endpoint.

Answer 4

how to read from path ? use ("."+File.seperator+"some else") path of File for current path into your code or html file