Trying to determine where / how to place stylesheets in a web application deployed in Tomcat 6 to allow .css styles. I have tried everything that I can think of without success.
I did these tests to find out to put the file, but few were successful.
1.) put css in-line with style attribute to verify text display green.
<div id="xxx" style="color:green;"> This worked.
Then I removed the attribute and
2.) moved it into a in-file <style></style> stmt in the jsp. This also worked.
I copied the css stmt into styles.css and disabled the in-line stmt in the jsp.
3.) added <link></link> stmts to file. I tried several path refs to the file.
And I put the file in several different directory locations to see where
it would get resolved. (none were found)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/styles.css">
Using FireBug (css tab) I see the follow information for these links
* <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
this displays the src to index.html in the root dir
* <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles.css">
this displays the msg
Apache Tomcat/6.0.13 - Error report
HTTP Status 404
The requested resource () is not available.
* <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/styles.css">
this displays
Failed to load source for: http://192.168.5.24:9191/css/clStyles.css
Contextual advertising / microblogging And the base path http://192.168.5.24:9191/microblog
Here is the test code I'm using.
I am using Spring 3. I have a simple JSP
- test.jsp -
<%
String path = request.getContextPath();
String basePath = request.getScheme()+"://"+request.getServerName()+":"+request.getServerPort()+path+"/";
%>
<html>
<head>
<base href="<%=basePath%>">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/styles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/styles.css">
<style>
#Yxxx {color:green;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="xxx">
<h2>Test <%=path%> <%=basePath%></h2>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I placed the styles.css file in many directories to see where it can be resolved, but none of them were found.
In Tomcat 6, the expanded directory structure of nested web applications
webapps/microblog
webapps/microblog/styles.css
webapps/microblog/index.html
webapps/microblog/css/styles.css
webapps/microblog/WEB-INF/css/styles.css
webapps/microblog/WEB-INF/jsp/admintest/styles.css
webapps/microblog/WEB-INF/jsp/admintest/test.jsp
So, how to get Tomcat 6 to resolve .css files?