Spring boot: configure it to find the webapp folder

Question

By default, Spring Boot looks in my src/main/webapp folder to find my html files. Where can I change the settings for Spring Boot if I use another folder to put the html fil

Answer 1

AS mentioned above, jar packaging ignores webapp content. If you still want to include the contents inside webapp folder, you need to specify this explicitly in maven POM.xml configuration as below -

<build>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
            </resource>
            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            </resource>
        </resources> ...

Answer 2

See the docs: http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-developing-web-applications.html#boot-features-spring-mvc-static-content

The static resources are loaded from /static, /public, /resources, /META-INF/resources

If you are packaging your application as a JAR (deploying a .jar), using src/main/webapp is not recommended.

You can customize that by overriding the addResourceHandlers method in WebMvcConfigurerAdapter

    @Configuration
    public class MvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
        @Override
        public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry){
             registry.addResourceHandler("/**")
                .addResourceLocations("/")
                .setCachePeriod(0);
        }
    }