JSP in /WEB-INF returns “HTTP Status 404 The requested resource is not available”

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404 simply means “Not Found”.

Either the URL is wrong (note: case sensitive!), or the resource is not there where you think it is.

Just verify the URL and/or verify if the resource is there where you’d expect it to be. You placed sample.jsp in /WEB-INF folder. This way it is not publicly accessible without calling through a front controller servlet.

Put it outside /WEB-INF.

samplejsp
 `-- WebContent
      |-- WEB-INF
      `-- sample.jsp

If you want to keep it in /WEB-INF, then you need to create a front controller servlet which forwards to it in doGet() method as below.

request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/sample.jsp").forward(request, response);

Finally “open” the JSP by just calling servlet’s actual URL instead of JSP’s fictive URL.

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