Struts 2.5.8 and Tiles 3.0.7: Unable to load the resources like img, css and js inside the JSP pages

Question

I recently upgraded my application to Struts 2.5.8 and Tiles 3.0.7. I also have upgraded to Spring v4.3.4, but its not integrated with tiles. I am able to start my application properly without any errors until now.

I see all the struts.xml and tiles.xml files are loaded properly and are being rendered correctly. However, when I open the first (login) page, I see that it is not able to load the resources like CSS, JS and images which are present inside the webapp directory. I see no errors anywhere in the log files.

But, when I press F12 in the browser, I see the below error in the browser console:

Error1: Unable to load any resource
Not allowed to load local resource: file:///C:/Users/Public/Documents/FIXED/Rosy/JComponents/SALYExplorerWebApp/SALYExplorer/src/main/webapp/static/style/content.css
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/javascript/javascript.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/javascript/swap.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/javascript/SALYExplorer-layout.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/javascript/prototype.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/pictures/utils/print.gif Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/style/xtree_ext.js Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/style/xtree.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/pictures/proximus.jpg Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()
localhost/:26 Uncaught ReferenceError: set_table_display is not defined
localhost:8485/SALYExplorer/static/style/xtree.css Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

F.e.
Request URL:http://localhost:8080/SALYExplorer/static/javascript/prototype.js
Request Method:GET
Status Code:404 
Remote Address:[::1]:8080
Response Headers
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Content-Language:en
Content-Length:990
Content-Type:text/html;charset=utf-8
Date:Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:17:39 GMT
Request Headers
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Accept:*/*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Cookie:CONFIG=IU%3DYES%7CPA%3DYES%7CCA%3DYES%7CNA%3DYES%7CCN%3DYES%7CCI%3DYES%7CDI%3DYES%7CLI%3DYES%7CTI%3DYES%7CNI%3DYES%7CSI%3DYES%7CPM%3DYES%7CSU%3DYES%7CII%3DYES%7CVS%3DYES%7CVN%3DYES%7CSW%3DYES%7COS%3DYES; XTREE=28%3D1%7C39%3D1%7C89%3D1%7C31%3D1; username=id829957; logService=RRO_TEST; language=EN; authMethod=AUTH_LAM; JSESSIONID=61F12923C6E58695243E48B753DAFAFF
Host:localhost:8080
Referer:http://localhost:8080/SALYExplorer/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36

Answer 1

In Struts2 the url-s beginning with the /static are for retrieving resources from the classpath.

Read more about static content handling in the documentation.

The simplest solution for your problem is to change the name of your folder that holds resources from static to something else.