Spring MVC 404 Error on some requests - spring

Question

I’m developing Spring MVC, on Apache 7.xx application and have setup everything without any errors.
I have a my application map my dispatcher servlet to HomeController , which serves the view “home/View” which is also working.
I want to implement UserAccount & Registeration use case before wiring & itegrating with spring security.
However my registration form (Register.jsp) on form submit ( or action="UserRegisteration/RegisterForm" method="POST">) gives 404 error rather than serving a view via (for testing I have UserRegisterationController serve Register.jsp again)
Register.jsp (form snippet)
<form action="/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm" method="POST">
<table width="283" border="1">
<tr>
<td width="123"><label for="firstname">First Name</label></td>
<td width="144"><input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="lastname">Last Name</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="email">Email</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" id="email"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="phonecontact1">Phone Contact 1</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="phonecontact1" id="phonecontact1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="phonecontact2">Phone Contact 2</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="phonecontact2" id="phonecontact2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="address1">Address 1</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="address1" id="address1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="address2">Address 2</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="address2" id="address2"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="industry ">Industry </label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="industry " id="industry "></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><label for="password">Enter Desired Password</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="password" id="password"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="reset" name="clear " id="clear " value="Clear Fields"></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="register" id="register" value="Register"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
I have the following method createUserAccountRegisteration()mapped to
#RequestMapping(value="/RegisterForm", method=RequestMethod.POST) see below:
(UserRegisterationController.java)
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/UserRegisteration")
public class UserRegisterationController {
#Autowired
private RegisterationService registerationService;
#Autowired
private UserAccountService userAccountService;
#Autowired
private PasswordService passwordService;
public UserRegisterationController() {
}
public UserRegisterationController(RegisterationService registerationService, UserAccountService userAccountService, PasswordService password) {
this.registerationService = registerationService;
this.userAccountService = userAccountService;
this.passwordService = password;
}
//if checked on register link , forward to registeration page
#RequestMapping(value="/RegisterForm", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String serveRegisterationView()
{
return "UserAccount/Register";
}
#RequestMapping(value="/RegisterForm", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public String createUserAccountRegisteration()
{
//if submited registeration
//check for previous registeration
//if registered prompt , forward to sign in
//else create registeration , and user account , and password , forward to main user page
return "UserAccount/Register";
}
}
web.xml
<web-app metadata-complete="true" version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml
/WEB-INF/hibernate-context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>cmgr</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>cmgr</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
</web-app>
spring-servlet relevat snippet (in my case cmgr-servlet)
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/>
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
p:prefix="/WEB-INF/views/" p:suffix=".jsp" p:viewClass="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
applicationContext.xml (relevant snippet)
<!-- Activates various annotations to be detected in bean classes -->
<context:annotation-config />
<!-- Scans the classpath for annotated components that will be auto-registered as Spring beans. For example #Controller and #Service. Make sure to set the correct base-package-->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.cmgr.*" />
<!-- Configures the annotation-driven Spring MVC Controller programming model. Note that, with Spring 3.0, this tag works in Servlet MVC only! -->
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<!-- mapping of static resources-->
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
</beans>
Result of Register.jsp form sumbmit:
Browser URL: (http://localhost:8084/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm)
HTTP Status 404 - /UserRegisteration/RegisterForm
type Status report
message /UserRegisteration/RegisterForm
description The requested resource (/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.22
What i noticed is the browser url is missing my applications context (/cmgr) the correct url should be "http://localhost:8084/cmgr/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm"

Answer 1

Result of Register.jsp form sumbmit:
Browser URL: (http://localhost:8084/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm)
What i noticed is the browser url is missing my applications context (/cmgr) the correct url >should be "http://localhost:8084/cmgr/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm"
This is right, the context root "/cmgr" is missing. Show us your view, presumably the form action is the problem.
You could use the Spring url tag, like this:
<spring:url value="/UserRegisteration/RegisterForm" var="targetURL"/>
<form action="${targetURL}" [...] >
</form>`