Browser can't access/find relative resources like CSS, images and links when calling a Servlet which forwards to a JSP

Question

I\'m having trouble with loading CSS and images and creating links to other pages when I have a servlet forward to a JSP. Specifically, when I set my

Answer 1

As for your update, I was confused for the reasoning behind in. Dug a little deeper and found this gem:

• yoursite.com becomes yoursite.com/
• yoursite.com/ is a directory, so the welcome-file-list is scanned
• yoursite.com/CMS is the first welcome-file ("CMS" in the welcome-file-list), and there is a mapping of /CMS to the MyCMS servlet, so that servlet is accessed.

Source: http://wiki.metawerx.net/wiki/HowToUseAServletAsYourMainWebPage

So, the mapping then does make sense.

And one can now freely use ${pageContext.request.contextPath}/path/ as src/href for relative links!