@RequestMapping pointing to "/"

[pgorny]

Hello,
I appologize if this was asked before, but @RequestMapping term is very popular and it is very hard to find what I'm looking for on the forum - possibly I can't even name it

In my Spring MVC project I've got a controller, where I've got the following method (no annotations except @Controller on the class):

@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String home(Locale locale, Model model)
{
	return "home";
}

Unfortunately this won't get resolved correctly, when I type in my browser: http://localhost:8080/website/ (I get HTTP Status 404).

If I use:

@RequestMapping(value = "/home-page", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String home(Locale locale, Model model)
{
	return "home";
}

then if I browse to http://localhost:8080/website/home-page I'm good...

Now, if I make the following change (remove: value = "/")

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String home(Locale locale, Model model)
{
	return "home";
}

there's no more 404 error, but the page is broken, because all the links are wrong. E.g.

<link href="/website/resources/css/styles.css;jsessionid=EA5D03D0894A03CF5DEF915402DA9359" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

instead of

<link href="/resources/css/styles.css;jsessionid=EA5D03D0894A03CF5DEF915402DA9359" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

What am I doing wrong in mapping by using @RequestMapping?

To be complete I attach my web.xml and application context:

<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" metadata-complete="false">

	<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value>
	</context-param>

	<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

	<!-- Processes application requests -->
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
			<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

<?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/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
		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">

	<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing infrastructure -->

	<!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
	<mvc:annotation-driven />

	<!-- Scan for annotation based controllers -->
	<context:component-scan base-package="controllers" />

	<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
	<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

	<!-- Configure Apache Tiles for the view -->
	<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
		<property name="definitions">
			<list>
				<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/layouts/layouts.xml</value>
				<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/controllers/views.xml</value>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>

	<!-- Apache Tiles view resolver -->
	<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
		<property name="requestContextAttribute" value="requestContext"/>
		<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView"/>
	</bean>

	<!-- bean responsible for loading messages*.properties files for i18n internationalisation -->
	<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
		<property name="basename" value="classpath:messages" />
		<property name="defaultEncoding" value="UTF-8" />
	</bean>

	<!-- beans helping to change current locale for i18n internationalisation -->
	<!-- i18n 1.: change listener -->
	<mvc:interceptors>
		<!-- Changes the locale when a 'locale' request parameter is sent; e.g. /?lang=de -->
		<bean id="localeChangeInterceptor" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor">
			<property name="paramName" value="lang" />
		</bean>
	</mvc:interceptors>
	<!-- i18n 2.: saves and reads cookies, where current (changed) locale is stored -->
	<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver">
		<property name="defaultLocale" value="en" />
	</bean>

</beans>