Not able to access web-app folder files in Grails 3

Question

I am not able to access web-app folder files in Grails 3. I have robots.txt in the web-app folder and in Grails 2 I was able to access it directly at http://localhost:8080/robots.txt. After migrating to Grails 3 I am not able to access it anymore at http://localhost:8080/robots.txt.

How can I make these files accessible again?

Answer 1

See https://github.com/grails/grails-core/releases/tag/v3.0.12 and part Location of static resources

In Grails 3 you can store your files under src/main/resources. You can access them by filename preceded with static for example http://localhost:8080/static/robots.txt.

This path can be changed using config option as defined in attached URL