You can use JSTL for creating urls. For example, <c:url value=”/images/header.jpg” /> will prefix the context root. With CSS, this usually isn’t an issue for me. I have a web root structure like this: /css /images In the CSS file, you then just need to use relative URLs (../images/header.jpg) and it doesn’t need to be … Read more
If you use a ServletContainer >= 2.5 you can use the following code to get the ContextPath: import javax.servlet.ServletContext; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.stereotype.Component @Component public class SpringBean { @Autowired private ServletContext servletContext; @PostConstruct public void showIt() { System.out.println(servletContext.getContextPath()); } }
URLs are not resolved based on the file structure in the server side. URLs are resolved based on the real public web addresses of the resources in question. It’s namely the webbrowser who has got to invoke them, not the webserver. There are several ways to soften the pain: JSF EL offers a shorthand to … Read more
If your actual concern is the dynamicness of the webapp context (the “AppName” part), then just retrieve it dynamically by HttpServletRequest#getContextPath(). <head> <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4764405/${pageContext.request.contextPath}/templates/style/main.css” /> <script src=”${pageContext.request.contextPath}/templates/js/main.js”></script> <script>var base = “${pageContext.request.contextPath}”;</script> </head> <body> <a href=”${pageContext.request.contextPath}/pages/foo.jsp”>link</a> </body> If you want to set a base path for all relative links so that you don’t need to … Read more
Before deciding whether to use the <base> tag or not, you need to understand how it works, what it can be used for and what the implications are and finally outweigh the advantages/disadvantages. The <base> tag mainly eases creating relative links in templating languages as you don’t need to worry about the current context in … Read more