Spring Boot: Adding static content to web application - css

Question

I'm using Spring Boot and I want to know how exactly we mention the path to static content in my JSP files?
I tried to make them in src/main/resources/static/css but it was not working, and in my JSP I called them by using:
<link href="<c:url value="/css/bootstrap.min.css" />" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
I have no special configuration in my SpringBoot Class just the call SpringApplication.run(...)
Thank you so much for the help!

Answer 1

you have to have configuration that extends WebMvcAutoConfigurationAdapter , it has registry implementation that has automatically scans for some default locations and adds them to classpath
/META-INF/resources/
/resources/
/static/
/public/
Just add,
#Configuration
#EnableWebMvc
#ComponentScan
public class ServerConfiguration extends WebMvcAutoConfiguration{
}

Answer 2

using springboot 1.5.6.RELEASE my folder structure looks like
~/repos/static-content-example/src > tree
.
├── main
│   ├── java
│   │   └── com
│   │   └── example
│   │   └── demo
│   │   ├── DemoApplication.java
│   │   └── MvcConfig.java
│   └── resources
│   ├── application.properties
│   ├── public
│   │   └── test.html
│   └── templates
└── test
└── java
└── com
└── example
└── demo
└── DemoApplicationTests.java
and when I start the server, I can browse to
http://localhost:8080/test.html
http://localhost:8080/public/test.html
anything in the folder "public" is accessible by default at your context root (#1 above). MvcConfig.java allows for #2. I always setup that alias so I can ignore security on any URL that starts with /public. In order to do that without the MvcConfig setup, you'd have to put a folder named public inside the public folder, which is just confusing.
I have no idea why spring doesn't do that by default....seems like it would clear up lots of confusion...