How to set relative URL in servlet jsp

Question

I'm jumping into an existing JSP project, using eclipse spring, tomcat 6.

Our project currently has the URL: http:localhost/path1 as its base.

In my index.jsp, when I try to reference .css & .js using: "/css/my.css"

It doesn't append the "/path1" before it, how do I set it up to automatically add that?

And I can't use a variables as I want to these fixed paths inside my .css file to reference images.

I don't want to explicitly type it in as that "path1" will change later.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Context path need to be included at the beginning of the url. If you don't want to hardcode the context path, you may use the following

<%@ include file="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/My.css" %>

Answer 2

Yes, use <c:url value="/css/file1.css" /> - this will append the context.