spring mvc: resources path outside the context root - spring

Question

I have seen the other solution on stackoverflow but it does not help. I am doing the same thing but I don't know why its not working for me.
I am uploading the images in /home/images folder on ubuntu machine and in spring-servlet.xml I have written the following lines
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="file:/home/images/"/>
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
Images are getting uploaded at /home/images/ folder but I am not able to access these images
In JSP I have written
<img src="/images/image.jpg"/>
but its not showing this image I don't understand the problem here. Please let me know if anything else is required.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd">
<context:annotation-config />
<context:component-scan
base-package="com.mycom.myproject" />
<!-- Enable annotation driven controllers, validation etc... -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="file:/home/images/"/>
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<!-- Declare a datasource that has pooling capabilities -->
<bean id="datasource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource"
destroy-method="close" p:driverClass="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
p:jdbcUrl="jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbtest" p:user="root" p:password="root"
p:acquireIncrement="10" p:idleConnectionTestPeriod="60" p:maxPoolSize="100"
p:maxStatements="50" p:minPoolSize="10" />
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager"
p:dataSource-ref="datasource" />
<bean id="sqlSessionFactory" class="org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="datasource" />
</bean>
<!-- scan for mappers and will automatically scan the whole classpath for xmls -->
<bean class="org.mybatis.spring.mapper.MapperScannerConfigurer">
<property name="sqlSessionFactory" ref="sqlSessionFactory" />
<property name="basePackage" value="com.mycom.myproject.db.mybatis.dao" />
</bean>
<!-- Configure the multipart resolver -->
<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver">
<!-- one of the properties available; the maximum file size in bytes -->
<property name="maxUploadSize" value="100000"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView"
p:extractValueFromSingleKeyModel="true" />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basename" value="classpath:project-config" />
</bean>
Web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml,
/WEB-INF/spring-security.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Spring Security -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>

Answer 1

oooook, your dispatcher servlet is mapped to .htm, so you're dispatcher servlet is never gonna be invoked, since it handles those /resources/* requests and calls a ResourceHttpRequestHandler to write the static content.