Where to put static files such as CSS in a spring-boot project?

Question

In my current spring-boot project, my views have this line:

<link href="signin.css" rel="stylesheet"/> 

to reference a static css file. When I run the project, and access one of the views which reference this file, I get a 404 not found error or a 403 unauthorized error, depending where I put the file inside the project.

I try this so far:

src/main/resources/static/css (with this, I use css/signin.css instead of signin.css)  src/main/resources/templates/static/css (with this, I use css/signin.css instead of signin.css)  src/src/main/resources/templates/acesso (same folder of the html file) 

what the right place to store this type of files?

Answer 1

Anywhere beneath src/main/resources/static is an appropriate place for static content such as CSS, JavaScript, and images. The static directory is served from /. For example, src/main/resources/static/signin.css will be served from /signin.css whereas src/main/resources/static/css/signin.css will be served from /css/signin.css.

The src/main/resources/templates folder is intended for view templates that will be turned into HTML by a templating engine such as Thymeleaf, Freemarker, or Velocity, etc. You shouldn't place static content in this directory.

Also make sure you haven't used @EnableWebMvc in your application as that will disable Spring Boot's auto-configuration of Spring MVC.