Spring boot: configure it to find the webapp folder

Question

By default, Spring Boot looks in my src/main/webapp folder to find my html files. Where can I change the settings for Spring Boot if I use another folder to put the html files?

Later, the files will be wrapped in jars for deployment. Are there other things I need to worry about?

Answer 1

See the docs: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-developing-web-applications.html#boot-features-spring-mvc-static-content

The static resources are loaded from /static, /public, /resources, /META-INF/resources

If you are packaging your application as a JAR (deploying a .jar), using src/main/webapp is not recommended.

You can customize that by overriding the addResourceHandlers method in WebMvcConfigurerAdapter

    @Configuration     public class MvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {         @Override         public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry){              registry.addResourceHandler("/**")                 .addResourceLocations("/")                 .setCachePeriod(0);         }     } 

Answer 2

AS mentioned above, jar packaging ignores webapp content. If you still want to include the contents inside webapp folder, you need to specify this explicitly in maven POM.xml configuration as below -

<build>         <resources>             <resource>                 <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>             </resource>             <resource>                 <directory>src/main/resources</directory>             </resource>         </resources> ...