cannot use the inclide file in JSP

Question

Hi, everyone,

I want to ask a question about the JSP page. I set the project in the following structure in order to manage the project efficiently. When I in the list folder, main.jsp, I set the header as the following

<%@ include file="universe/header.jsp" %>

When I open the main.jsp, It shows the error "cannot find the "jsp/list/universe/header.jsp"

the header.jsp and other classes cannot be read. Can anyone help me to solve the problem? thank you.

Class structure

webapp
|
|-- jsp
    |
    |-- list
    |   |
    |   |--main.jsp
    | 
    |-- universe
        |
        |-- header.jsp
        |-- footer.jsp

Answer 1

In a JSP include directive the path can be relative to the including page or absolute (then it has to start with a / and belongs to the webapplication root directory).

So in this case you has to set the path either to ../universe/header.jsp or /jsp/universe/header.jsp.

Answer 2

It depends if your using the classpath to locate files. if your using classpath to locate your files then it should be inside your class folder