I am trying to implement SimpleUrlHandlerMapping in Spring. I am using Spring 4.2.5 version.
Following is my mapping
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
.....
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/hello1.dsm">hc</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="hc" class="com.vaannila.HelloWorldController" >
<property name="message" value="Hello World!" />
</bean>
....
</beans>
When I run tomcat, I get the info message on console saying
org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractUrlHandlerMapping registerHandler
INFO: Mapped URL path [/hello1.dsm] onto handler 'hc'
But When I hit the url "http://localhost:8080/SpringExample5/hello1.dsm" in my browser I get the requested resource is not available error i.e 404.
Later when I change key to "/hello1.htm", it worked fine with respective url. I am wondering is there any rule on url extention while mapping url to controller.
In web.xml, The dispatcher servlet url pattern is configured to .htm extention
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
............
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>............
and hence It is working fine for ".htm" extention.
To make it work for other extentions we need to set corresponding url-pattern in web.xml file.
Does the web deploy mechanism affect Spring MVC work?
I create a web project(SpringMVCTest) contains web.xml and a pjsp pages then I create a Java project(SpringMVCTestSrc) and use the link source function to link test_src and SpringMVCTestSrc.
My Eclipse workspace
My problem is if I deploy the project in war file then it works fine
, EX: if I open
localhost:8080/SpringMVCTest/message/showMessage.pages
it will forward to
main/showMessage.jsp
but if I deploy the project with separate web and jar file it will no request mapping found like below.
[DEBUG]-[2015/07/30 15:03:39,o.s.w.s.DispatcherServlet(init):139]: Servlet 'dispatcher' configured successfully
[DEBUG]-[2015/07/30 15:03:40,o.s.w.s.DispatcherServlet(doService):861]: DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcher' processing GET request for [/SpringMVCTest/message/showMessage.pages]
[DEBUG]-[2015/07/30 15:03:40,o.s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping(getHandlerInternal):294]: Looking up handler method for path /message/showMessage.pages
[DEBUG]-[2015/07/30 15:03:40,o.s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping(getHandlerInternal):302]: Did not find handler method for [/message/showMessage.pages]
[WARN]-[2015/07/30 15:03:40,o.s.w.s.PageNotFound(noHandlerFound):1136]: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/SpringMVCTest/message/showMessage.pages] in DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcher'
The log shows the different.
If I deploy in war file. The log shows found 18 bean definitions and request mapping works fine.
Export war file from Eclipse and put it to apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps
Startup Tomcat and open localhost:8080/SpringMVCTest/message/showMessage.pages
The page will show Message : Hello world
o.s.c.a.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner(registerDefaultFilters):244]: JSR-250 'javax.annotation.ManagedBean' found and supported for component scanning
o.s.c.i.s.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver(doFindMatchingFileSystemResources):631]: Looking for matching resources in directory tree [D:\Temp\apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest\WEB-INF\classes\in\hotkey\mvc]
o.s.c.i.s.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver(doRetrieveMatchingFiles):693]: Searching directory [D:\Temp\apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest\WEB-INF\classes\in\hotkey\mvc] for files matching pattern [D:/Temp/apache-tomcat-8.0.21/webapps/SpringMVCTest/WEB-INF/classes/in/hotkey/mvc/**/*.class]
o.s.c.i.s.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver(findPathMatchingResources):424]: Resolved location pattern [classpath*:in/hotkey/mvc/**/*.class] to resources [file [D:\Temp\apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest\WEB-INF\classes\in\hotkey\mvc\MainForm.class]]
o.s.c.a.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner(findCandidateComponents):286]: Identified candidate component class: file [D:\Temp\apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest\WEB-INF\classes\in\hotkey\mvc\MainForm.class]
o.s.b.f.x.XmlBeanDefinitionReader(loadBeanDefinitions):224]: Loaded 18 bean definitions from location pattern [classpath:test-dispatcher-context.xml]
If I deploy with separate web and jar file. The log shows found 17 bean definitions and request mapping does not work.
Build a directory in apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps, EX: apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest
Copy WEB-INF, META-INF from Eclipse workspace to apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest
Export jar file from SpringMVCTestSrc and put it to apache-tomcat-8.0.21\webapps\SpringMVCTest\WEB-INF\lib
Startup Tomcat and open localhost:8080/SpringMVCTest/message/showMessage.pages
The page shows HTTP 404
o.s.c.a.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner(registerDefaultFilters):244]: JSR-250 'javax.annotation.ManagedBean' found and supported for component scanning
o.s.c.i.s.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver(findPathMatchingResources):424]: Resolved location pattern [classpath*:in/hotkey/mvc/**/*.class] to resources []
o.s.b.f.x.XmlBeanDefinitionReader(loadBeanDefinitions):224]: Loaded 17 bean definitions from location pattern [classpath:test-dispatcher-context.xml]
Does someone know why the same code but different deploy mechanism has different result?
My code as blow
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="3.1">
<display-name>SpringMVCTest</display-name>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:test-service-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath:test-dispatcher-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.pages</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Spring Configuration(test-service-context.xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd">
<bean id="testMessageService" class="in.hotkey.service.TestMessageService" >
</bean>
</beans>
Spring MVC Config(test-dispatcher-context.xml)
<?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: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-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="in.hotkey.mvc"/>
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean id="multipartResolver" class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver" />
</beans>
Main Controller
package in.hotkey.mvc;
import in.hotkey.service.TestMessageService;
import javax.annotation.Resource;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
#Controller
public class MainForm {
#RequestMapping(value="/message/showMessage.pages")
public ModelAndView handleShowMessage() throws Exception {
ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("main/showMessage");
mv.addObject("message", "Hello world!");
return mv;
}
}
JSP Content
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h4>Message : ${message}</h4>
</body>
</html>
I found what the problem is....
Root cause founded from Spring MVC document.
It means annotation scan need directory entries!!
The problem is if I export whole project into war file. It contains the complete directory entries in WEB-INF/classes directory but jar file has no directory entry information.
Resolve this problem just check the "Add directory entries" option in Eclipse export function.
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Why does Spring MVC respond with a 404 and report "No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [...] in DispatcherServlet"?
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I checked out nearly every relevant article on stackoverflow already, but I just cant fix my problem.
Here is the code:
web.xml:
<display-name>Spring3MVC</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener </listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
spring-servlet.xml:
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany.elso" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/>
<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>
myController:
public class myController {
#RequestMapping("/hello")
public ModelAndView helloWorld() {
String message = "Hello World, Spring 3.0!";
return new ModelAndView("hello", "message", message);
}
}
Web Pages/index.jsp:
<html>
<head>
<title>Spring 3.0 MVC Series</title>
</head>
<body>
Say Hello
</body>
</html>
Web Pages/WEB-INF/jsp/hello.jsp:
<html>
<head>
<title>Spring 3.0 MVC Series: Hello World - ViralPatel.net</title>
</head>
<body>
${message}
</body>
</html>
So when i launch the appication the index.jsp is loaded correctly but when i click on the href to navigate to hello.jsp i got a 404 error and the server log says:
No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/Elso/hello.html] in DispatcherServlet with name 'spring'
I've checked out dozens of articles like that, but I just can't find the mistake, anybody has any idea what could it be?
Add
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
to spring-servlet.xml
You could try and add an #Controller annotation on top of your myController Class and
try the following url /<webappname>/my/hello.html.
This is because org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping prepends /my to each RequestMapping in the myController class.
If you are using
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
make sure your spring-servlet.xml has correct
<context:component-scan base-package="com.....controller" /> tag.
Basically, you need to include all the packages where you have used the annotation in your java code.
Also, please ensure you do not have duplication of component-scan (for a discovery of beans). If your config XML already contains the element, then any of your Controller classes that are annotated with #ComponentScan(basePackages=... needs to be stripped of the said annotation.
I solved my issue with :
Java Build Path -> JRE system library - > Edit -> Alternate JRE -> -> Finish
As it was configured to JDK folder so it was giving Exception
Make sure
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.hireartists.web.controllers"/>
points to proper package that contains controllers.
Please check your [PROJECT_NAME]\target\classes directory to see whether myController.class is generated or not.
If not, please check all your java source code whether there are any compilation errors.
If you are using Java code based on Spring MVC configuration then enable the DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer in the WebMvcConfigurerAdapter object.
#Override
public void configureDefaultServletHandling(DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
configurer.enable();
}
Try:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Worked for me!
Check ur Bean xmlns..
I also had similar problem, but I resolved it by adding mvc xmlns.
<?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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="net.viralpatel.spring3.controller" />
<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>
</beans>
addition of <mvc:annotation-driven/> worked for me.
Add it before line <context:component-scan ............/>
If you want to serve .html files, you must add this <mvc:default-servlet-handler /> in your spring config file. .html files are static.
Hope that this can help someone.
It is not finding the controllers, this is basic issues.
it can be due to following reasons.
A. inside WEB-INF folder you have file web.xml that refers to dispatcherServlet. Here it this case is mvc-config.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcherServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/mvc-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
B. This mvc-config.xml file have namespaces and it has to scan the controllers.
<context:component-scan base-package="org.vimal.spring.controllers" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
C. Check for the correctness of the package name where you have the controllers. It should work.
All Controllers must be Annotated with #Controller.
Had the exact same error and it took me a long time trying to understand it. It is most likely down to compilation errors, the java classes did not get published in your servlet. Please check this by going in the server that you are using \tmp1\wtpwebapps[PROJECT_NAME]\WEB-INF\classes\ and try to find you controller classes to see whether or not they have been published. If not you need to get to the bottom of any compilation errors.
If you are using maven as build tool for project , build your project properly,your changes in the code and xml files are not reflecting after compilations.
If you depend on Spring Social, check that you have configured a Web Controller bean:
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.social.connect.web.ConnectController;
import org.springframework.social.connect.ConnectionFactoryLocator;
import org.springframework.social.connect.ConnectionRepository;
...
#Bean
public ConnectController connectController(ConnectionFactoryLocator connectionFactoryLocator, ConnectionRepository connectionRepository) {
return new ConnectController(connectionFactoryLocator, connectionRepository);
}
if you are using maven then do run maven install command before you run your web app on a server as it will generate a class file for your controller and in my experience that is what your application has been missing.
I had the same issue and after lots of reserach I found the classes were not getting published in my target folder. So I had run the below two commands from cmd
mvn clean install
mvn package
Surprisingly I was able to access the page and error was gone. Same can be verified from target folder where you will be able to find the complied classes which were missing earlier.
Add #Controller to your controller or where ever you have the #RequestMapping for you json end point.
This worked for me while deploying a similar application.
If you are using Maven ,
Add these to your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupid>javax.servlet</groupid>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
<dependency>
<groupid>taglibs</groupid>
<artifactId>standard</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
I also faced the same issue, but after putting the namespace below, it works fine:
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
Removing the Tomcat Server and adding new tomcat configuration in Eclipse resolved issue for me.
In pom.xml make sure packaging is set to war like <packaging>war</packaging> ,not to jar or any thing else.
What is /Elso?
You try:
#RequestMapping("/Elso")
public class myController {
#RequestMapping("/hello")
public ModelAndView helloWorld() {
String message = "Hello World, Spring 3.0!";
return new ModelAndView("hello", "message", message);
}
}
I need to know the basic XML configuration files to put in my Web-inf folder, like web.XML, and where to write view resolver bean.
How do I register the controller?
When I run my application I get the error "could not open servlet context resource". What is servlet context resource and where do I mention it?
My web.xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>
jsp/index.jsp
</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
My springmvc is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
<bean name="/hello_world.html" class="springmvc.web.HelloWorldController"/>
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
</beans>
I have these two xml files only.
I know I need a spring configuration file too. I don't know what details I need to put in that.
If you use STS (Spring Tool Suite) then you can create a Spring Template Project.
(New Project/SpringSource Tool Suite/Spring Template Project/-Spring MVC Project)
This contains all the files you need to start.
I configured a Jetty 7 embedded mode in eclipse indigo. When i start jetty in eclipse it seems not loading my web.xml and spring-servlet.xml configuration. I search on the net, it seems everybody doing the same configuration as me but mine doesn't load. Did i forgot something ? or Jetty 7 configuration its different than jetty 6 ?
Main.java
Server server = new Server(8080);
WebAppContext context = new WebAppContext();
context.setResourceBase("../jettyserver/webapp");
context.setContextPath("/");
context.setParentLoaderPriority(true);
HandlerList handlers = new HandlerList();
handlers.setHandlers(new Handler[]{ context, new DefaultHandler()});
server.setHandler(context);
try {
server.start();
server.join();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
web.xml
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<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>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
spring-servlet.xml
<?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"
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">
<context:annotation-config />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.jetty.controller" />
<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>
</beans>
Not an expert here but if you are using eclipse I'd say there could be a problem with your resource base.
Depending on how you use Eclipse here (WTP, Maven etc) the compiled code will end up in the target folder somewhere. However your JSP and all may not follow or may not be where you'd think they are.
Compile your code and look in your target folder see where it is. I do something similar but it's testing code so I don't really care if the paths are linked to my IDE. our versions are pretty much identical, applicative differences aside, except for these :
WebAppContext webapp = new WebAppContext();
webapp.setDescriptor("target/app/WEB-INF/web.xml");
webapp.setResourceBase("target/app");
webapp.setContextPath("/app");
As you can see here the root path of the application run-time within Eclipse is your project's root path in your workspace. I set mine so it finds it's stuff relative to the project's root path, hence the target in there.
If however you are looking for code that runs in both your environment and once deployed you could probably change the root folder in the run configuration for your particular application and set it to target directly (or whatever works for you).
Sorry for not being more decisive here,
Anyways, hope this helps.