[Chuck Minarik]

I’m trying to organize a project that has a lot of files. So far, I have placed all my picture files in an “images” folder, put my tlds in a “taglibs” folder, and created an include file that points to my tlds. But I haven’t figured out the correct way to put my jsp files in a separate folder. I’d like to have my main/index jsp in WebRoot, but have all the others in a “jsps” folder.

I’m testing with the StrutsLoginDemo app. I created a “jsps” folder directly under WebRoot, and moved userLoginSuccess.jsp to it, but the application can’t find it. I have tried multiple combinations that have not worked in my struts-config.xml file:

      <forward name="success" path="userLoginSuccess.jsp" />
      <forward name="success" path="jsps/userLoginSuccess.jsp" />
      <forward name="success" path="/jsps/userLoginSuccess.jsp" />
      <forward name="success" path="./jsps/userLoginSuccess.jsp" />

Then I thought maybe I needed to update my build path, but I can’t figure out how.

My general directory structure is as follows:

WebRoot
     |___images   (not in this project)
     |___jsps
     |___META-INF
     |___WEB-INF
            |___classes (usually, but not in this project)
            |___lib     (.jar files)
            |___taglibs (.tld files)
     |___userLogin.jsp

Would you please show me a “best practices” method of segregating jsp files? Any other suggestions regarding my directory structure would be appreciated also.

TIA.

[Riyad Kalla]

What you are trying to do is all right, and your mapping of:
<forward name=”success” path=”/jsps/userLoginSuccess.jsp” />

Was the right one. What was happening is you likely weren’t restarting your app after changing the struts-config.xml file, so you kept getting a file not found error. Does this sound like it could have been the case?

[Chuck Minarik]

That must have been the problem, because it works now.

However, I have a similar situation that I can’t get to work. Trying the same technique from another jsp, I relocated Top.jsp to the jsps folder, but I get an HTTP 404 message:

<FRAMESET rows="76, 574,*" FRAMEBORDER=NO FRAMESPACING=0 BORDER=0>
    
     <FRAME src="/jsps/Top.jsp" name="top" NORESIZE>
    <FRAME src="Bottom.jsp" name="bottom" NORESIZE>
        
  </FRAMESET>

Any ideas?

[Riyad Kalla]

you may need to use “jsps/Top.jsp” as a relative path, I believe / in a standard HTML page will resolve to the root of your domain.

[Chuck Minarik]

That worked…”jsps/Top.jsp”. But something else is strange. Top.jsp also refers to a couple of other jsps. If I put them in the jsps folder, I have to refer to them by name only, no path…for example: TopLeft.jsp & TopRight.jsp.

If I leave them in WebRoot, I have to refer to them as ../TopLeft.jsp & ../TopRight.jsp. It’s as if the current directory was changed.

Is this what you’d expect?

[Riyad Kalla]

Yes, you are forced to use relative paths. That’s normal. It’s just the difference between how the *app server* resolves paths (relative to the root of the URL) and how Struts resolves path (relative to the root of your webapp). It’s a bit confusing at first.

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