Getting the server path

[Steve Ashton]

Hi,

I am using Struts for my application and I used to have a hyperlink in my JSP page. The link was like this <a href="<html:rewrite page="/assets/css/public.css" />">The Link</a>

However, I moved all this code into a custom taglib and when I write the code in the taglib, when it prints it out to the JSP page, it doesn't rewrite the url, it actually writes <html:rewrite page="/assets/css/public.css" /> which obviously is not what I want.

I tried a number of things such as

pageContext.getServletContext().getRealPath("/assets/images/plus.gif")

but this just gets the path on the C:/ drive which is not right. Can anyone let me know how I can return the server path to the right directory.

Many thanks

[Steve Ashton]

I found the solution to this so I thought I would post it incase anyone ever comes across the same problem.

RequestUtils.absoluteURL(req,"/assets/images/plus.gif")

[Marc Peabody]

Giving a quick glance to the api, it looks like replacing getRealPath with getResource might do the trick.