title: Not displaying images in Spring MVC
body: <p>I know this question has been asked many times, but I'm not able to figure out what the problem is. I have the images folder under the src/main/webapp folder (this a maven web project). I have the index.jsp in the src/main/webapp/WEBINF/views folder. </p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to access the images and other resources like css and js like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;img src="/images/left_arrow.png" alt="" /&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>But the images are not getting displayed.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the web.xml file</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
  version="3.0"&gt;
  
  &lt;servlet&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;mvc-dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-class&gt;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
      &lt;load-on-startup&gt;1&lt;/load-on-startup&gt;
  &lt;/servlet&gt;
  
  &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;mvc-dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml file</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"&gt;
  
  &lt;context:component-scan base-package="com.ravi.WebApp" /&gt;
  
  &lt;bean
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"&gt;
      &lt;property name="prefix"&gt;
          &lt;value&gt;/WEB-INF/views/&lt;/value&gt;
      &lt;/property&gt;
      &lt;property name="suffix"&gt;
          &lt;value&gt;.jsp&lt;/value&gt;
      &lt;/property&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  
  &lt;/beans&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the Controller
      package com.ravi.WebApp;</p>
  
  <pre><code>import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
  import org.springframework.ui.Model;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
  
  @Controller
  public class HelloController {
  
  @RequestMapping("/")
  public String printWelcome(Model model) {
      return "index";
  
  }
  
  }
  </code></pre>