absolute paths not recommended in jsps

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Could someone explain why absolute paths not recommended to use in JSP (e.g., IntelliJ IDEA show me a warning)? jsp intellij-idea share improve this question asked Apr 2 '13 at 8:37 sidlejinks 279 7 21
	1   Because IntelliJ is smart enough to realize that you should always use a path that's relative to the root of your web context. –  duffymo Apr 2 '13 at 8:40 So there is no strict rule to use only relative or context-based paths? –  sidlejinks Apr 2 '13 at 8:45 There are no rules, my friend. Write it any way you want and live with the consequences. –  duffymo Apr 2 '13 at 9:15 add a comment

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Consider the following code in your JSP: <script src="/path/to/script.js" /> And you deploy your application on www.example.com in servlet context myContext, your script will be looked up by the browser in www.example.com/path/to/script.js However, the browser will not find the script. The URL where it can actually be found containts the servlet context as well as part of the URL: www.example.com/myContext/path/to/script.js So you should change the URL in your JSP to: <script src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/path/to/script.js" /> Then the context path is also available in the URL and everything will work fine. share improve this answer answered Apr 2 '13 at 9:08 Uooo 4,307 5 26 57

Thank you very much indeed for explanation! –  sidlejinks Apr 2 '13 at 9:45 This didn't work at all for me. It just rendered files with the path looking something like: localhost:8080/profile/$%7BpageContext.request.context%7D/cs‌​s/profile/ –  Matt Powell Jul 17 '13 at 20:36 @MattPowell seems like your expression ${...} did not get evaluated right. Some frameworks require to use #{...} instead, did you try that? –  Uooo Jul 22 '13 at 5:46 @w4rumy Thanks. It turns out I was using an outdated version of JSP. Once I updated to the latest version, the syntax worked correctly. –  Matt Powell Jul 22 '13 at 15:42 Probably we can just write path/to/script.js without any prepending slash or context variable, am I right? –  ieXcept Apr 9 '16 at 18:17