Frontman: how to reference a boring normal HTML page

[Pat Farrell]

I want to add a simple HTML page for the "about" link.

Something like:

about the company




org.bibeault.frontman.CommandNotFoundException: Command with verb about.html not found

How do I tell Frontman that this is a simple HTML href and not one that needs special processing?

Thanks
Pat

[D. Ogranos]

Well you wouldn't put simple HTML pages into the WEB-INF/views folder I guess, but instead somewhere at the top of your .war file structure. Then you can simply address it with a relative path (to your context path). That's what I would do probably.

If you really want to put it into the WEB-INF/views folder too, I suppose you need to go through a command to display the page, as you can't access pages under WEB-INF directly. In this case your command can do a context.forward("/WEB-INF/views/.../mypage.html").

[Bear Bibeault]

Right, because an HTML page needs no command controller, I'd just place it outside WEB-INF and use a direct URL to it.

[Pat Farrell]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Right, because an HTML page needs no command controller, I'd just place it outside WEB-INF and use a direct URL to it.

Can you be more specific?

I've got it above the WEB-INF and can't find it.
Its in a marketing directory, specifically in

 ls
build		build.xml	dist		nbproject	src		test		web
pfarrell@way:~/sandbox/wayserver/webapi$ cd web/
pfarrell@way:~/sandbox/wayserver/webapi/web$ ls
WEB-INF		css		images		index.jsp	javascript	marketing	timeout.jsp
pfarrell@way:~/sandbox/wayserver/webapi/web$ cd marketing/
pfarrell@way:~/sandbox/wayserver/webapi/web/marketing$ ls
about.html

None of these work.

<a href="/web/marketing/about.html">about the company</a>

<a href="/marketing/about.html">about the company</a>

<a href="about.html">about the company</a>

[Bear Bibeault]

Like any other server-relative reference, the URL should start with the context path.