Spring MVC Request URLs in JSP

I prefer to use BASE tag:

<base href="${pageContext.request.scheme}://${pageContext.request.serverName}:${pageContext.request.serverPort}${pageContext.request.contextPath}/" />

Then, all your links can be like:

<a href="admin/listPeople">Go to People List</a>

The c:url tag will append the context path to your URL. For example:

<c:url value="/admin/listPeople"/>

Alternately, I prefer to use relative URLs as much as possible in my Spring MVC apps as well. So if the page is at /MyApp/index, the link <a href="admin/listPeople"> will take me to the listPeople page.

This also works if you are deeper in the URL hierarchy. You can use the .. to traverse back up a level. So on the page at/MyApp/admin/people/aPerson, using <a href="../listPeople"> will like back to the list page

You need to prepend context path to your links.

// somewhere on the top of your JSP
<c:set var="contextPath" value="${pageContext.request.contextPath}"/>

...
<a href="${contextPath}/admin/listPeople">Go to People List</a>