Spring + Tiles - 404 error when accessing jsp folder - spring

Question

Basically, what happens when I launch my project is that the views are all resolved properly and the correct jsp is being looked for, however there seems to be something blocking tiles access to my jsp folder inside the WEB-INF folder.
The exact problem is that when I go to localhost/FitterBlog/index.htm I get a 404 error:
The requested resource (/FitterBlog/jsp/layout/layout.jsp) is not available.
I have the following code:
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app 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</param-value>
</context-param>
<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>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
dispatcher-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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
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/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.fitterblog.controllers"/>
<context:annotation-config/>
<!-- tiles configuration -->
<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass">
<value>org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
tiles.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_0.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/jsp/layout/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="FitterBlog" />
<put-attribute name="header" value="/jsp/layout/header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="nav" value="/jsp/layout/nav.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="" />
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/jsp/layout/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="index" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/jsp/index.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
MainController.java:
package com.fitterblog.controllers;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
#Controller
public class MainController {
#RequestMapping(value="index.htm", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView index() {
return new ModelAndView("index");
}
}
I have triple checked that all the JSP files are located in the correct location, as in the layout.jsp file that gets the 404 error is located in WEB-INF/jsp/layout/layout.jsp.

Answer 1

In my application the jsp's are located in subdirectories of WEB-INF.
If it is the same for you you need to change the tiles config a bit
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="baseLayout" template="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/layout.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="FitterBlog" />
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="nav" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/nav.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="" />
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/layout/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="index" extends="baseLayout">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>

Answer 2

If You want to store your JSPs in WEB-INF then just set the prefix property in the ViewResolver
<beanid="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>