Hi together,

I know that many posts about this topic already exist. But I am not able to find a working solution for me. Hope you guys can help me.

I want to outsource all my images into a folder, outside the project folder. so i tried to add following code to my servlet.xml:

Code:
<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:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:dwr="http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr"
    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
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/security 
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
              http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
	      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
	      http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr
	      http://www.directwebremoting.org/schema/spring-dwr-3.0.xsd">
and

Code:
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/>
	
<!-- External resource mapping -->
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/../external_files/images/" />
JSP Call:
Code:
<img src="<c:url value='/images/pdf.jpg'/>" />
Project folder Structure
WebRoot
|- images
|- META-INF
|- WEB-INF

External folder
[tomcat6 dictionary]/webapps/external_files/images

Don't know what's going wrong. Thx for your help!