Spring Boot: serving static content with war packagin

Question

I was trying to use auto configured serving static content in spring boot. I read it is enough to put that content to /static/ or /resources/ and configure on @Controller in order to do it.

In my project it looks like it does not work at all.

I have compared it with spring-boot-sample-web-ui and the only thing I have different is packaging. There is jar and I have war packaging.

Could you please confirm me that in spring-boot in war packaging this auto configured static content serving does not work?

Answer 1

First create a folder named static in src/main/resources.

Now if you want something to be displayed by default you can add an index.html to that folder and you can display that as your landing page (Ex: http://localhost:8080/my-app-name)

Then, if you have other content you can create folders by type put those inside.

Ex:

images  -> src/main/resources/static/images
js  -> src/main/resources/static/js

If you put login.js file inside above js folder, you can access it now from the url http://localhost:8080/my-app-name/js/login.js