JSP can't find stylesheet

Question

Hierarchy:
WEB-INF/jsp
WEB-INF/styles

I link stylesheet in my JSP file, which is located in WEB-INF/jsp:

Answer 1

I've found http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-static-resources So now my rus-servlet.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
        <context:component-scan base-package="rus.web"/>
        <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
            <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
            <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
        </bean>
        <mvc:annotation-driven/>
        <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/"/>
</beans>

But this in JSP still doesn't work!

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="resources/styles/styles.css" />

And i have 3.0.5 version of my spring framework.

Answer 2

All the files stored in WEB-INF are, on purpose, invisible to the outside. A URL pointing on WEB-INF/something will thus always result in a 404. WEB-INF is used to store resources needed by the application, but which must stay invisible to the outside.

Put the CSS files outside of WEB-INF.

Answer 3

By default Tomcat will not serve static files from WEB-INF/, move your css up a level so the css is "./styles/some.css". Since you have your JSPs in WEB-INF/jsp I assume you are using JSF or some other facading framework?