I am having trouble connecting an external css and javascript file to its jsp.
I tried doing the WebConfig as I read on google but I realised that my jsp files' path are done via application.properties so when it ran it override the application.properties and the .jsp could not be found. I deleted the WebConfig and stuck with the application.properties and tried to add a filepath for css
spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/views/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp
spring.web.resources.statstaticic-locations=classpath:/static/,classpath:/public/,classpath:/resources/,classpath:/META-INF/resources/
These made the JSP run but it could not read the css.
File Path for JSP: src-> main -> webapp-> home.jsp
home.jsp:
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:url value='/css/home.css' />">
<title>Project One</title> </head> <body>
File Path for CSS: src-> main-> resources-> static-> css-> home.css
I am not sure if this matters but these are the dependencies I am using (gradle):
dependencies {
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web'
developmentOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa'
runtimeOnly 'com.mysql:mysql-connector-j'
runtimeOnly 'org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasper:10.1.9' //jsp
runtimeOnly 'org.glassfish.web:jakarta.servlet.jsp.jstl:3.0.0' //helpful jsp tags
You have not configured static resources or tried to configure it but have a wrong property name.
See chapter 27: Developing web applications