title: fileNotfound exception of my properties file
body: <p>i am trying to use a custom .properties file i created to host some properties about a SQL database but the issue is that my spring app cant find it.</p>
  
  <p>i get the following error </p>
  
  <p>Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/jdbc.properties]</p>
  
  <p>i have tried to put this file in the root of my project and also inside the root of the WEB-INF folder and still no joy.</p>
  
  <p>my properties configurer bean looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;bean id="propertyConfigurer"
      class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"&gt;
      &lt;property name="locations"&gt;
          &lt;list&gt;
              &lt;value&gt;jdbc.properties&lt;/value&gt;
          &lt;/list&gt;
      &lt;/property&gt;
  &lt;/bean&gt;
  </code></pre>