spring RequestMapping 404 status [duplicate]

Question

Ok, I know there are like 20 posts here with the same problem, but none of them seem to help me, so this will probably be a duplicate, but I've gone over all the other posts and none of them solved my problem, so there must be something that I'm doing wrong or I'm not doing the right modifications from the answers of the previous mentioned questions.

I'm trying to make a small application using Spring, and I'm still experimenting with it, but I've spent like 4 days trying to figure what's wrong and I just can't. I still get a HTTP Status 404 whenever I try to get a jsp back from the controller. Nothing but 404 status through Tomcat, nothing else...

WebAppController:

@Controller
public class WebAppController {

    @RequestMapping(value="/login", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String login() {
        System.out.println("You have entered the login maprequest");
        return "test1";
    }

}

web.xml:

    <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    version="2.5">
    <display-name>Hotel Application</display-name>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>WebApp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>WebApp</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>login.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

webApp.xml:

   <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.iquestgroup" />

    <bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix">
            <value>/jsp/</value>
        </property>
        <property name="suffix">
            <value>.jsp</value>
        </property>
    </bean>
</beans>

This configuration works in a simple maven project with only the above mentioned in it. The problem is, the exact same thing isn't working in a maven project with 3 modules(persistence, service and webapp). In the webapp i've copied the exact same thing and when I run it on server I get 404 http status... even though the modules are building with success.

L.E. The first part of the accepted answer refers to a common servlet mapping mistake made by those who are starting with Spring. My problem was not related to it and I ended up removing it after initial answer. In order to not become confusing for readers, the first part of the accepted answer refers to the following code:

<servlet-mapping>
     <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Answer 1

Change

<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

to

<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>

Currently, your mapped DispatcherServlet is marked as handling all requests because of /*. This means that it will also attempt to handle a request dispatched to /WEB-INF/jsp/test1.jsp. It obviously doesn't have a handler for that and will fail.

The pattern / is special in that it is the default fallback if no other pattern matches. If there's a Servlet that maps to the request path, that Servlet will be chosen before your mapped DispatcherServlet.

Most (probably all) Servlet containers come mapped with a Servlet to handle rendering JSPs with the url-pattern of *.jsp. That will take precedence over your DispatcherServlet mapped to /.

If you're still getting 404 after these changes, then there are a few possibilities.

Spring logs at the INFO level any handler methods (@RequestMapping annotated methods within @Controller beans) it registers. If you don't see any of those in your logs, then your web application hasn't been deployed correctly/successfully.

If your Servlet container is embedded in your IDE, check the appropriate tab/view on the apps that are deployed. If it's standalone, check that your generated .war file is in the appropriate directory and expanded correctly.