title: Spring MVC 404 not found error
body: <p>I am trying to run a project in Spring MVC. Here is the code</p>
  
  <p>index.jsp</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%&gt;
  &lt;%@taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  
  &lt;html&gt;
      &lt;head&gt;
          &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"&gt;
          &lt;title&gt;Welcome to Spring Web MVC project&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;/head&gt;
  
      &lt;body&gt;
          &lt;h1&gt;Spring 3 Register!&lt;/h1&gt;
          &lt;a href="register.htm"&gt;click&lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;form:form action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/register.htm" method="POST" modelAttribute="userForm"&gt;
              &lt;table&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;Spring MVC Form Demo - Registration&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;User Name&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;form:input path="username" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Password&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;form:password path="password" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Email&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;form:input path="email" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;BirthDate (mm/dd/yyyy)&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;form:input path="birthDate" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;Profession&lt;/td&gt;
                      &lt;td&gt;&lt;form:select path="profession" items="${professionList}" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
                  &lt;tr&gt;
                      &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Register" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                  &lt;/tr&gt;
  
              &lt;/table&gt;
          &lt;/form:form&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>RegistrationController.java</p>
  
  <pre><code>/*
   * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
   * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
   * and open the template in the editor.
   */
  
  package RegisterInfo;
  import java.util.ArrayList;
  import java.util.List;
  import java.util.Map;
  
  /**
   *
   * @author Harshit Shrivastava
   */
  import RegisterInfo.model.User;
  
  import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
  import org.springframework.ui.Model;
  
  @Controller
  @RequestMapping(value = "/register")
  public class RegistrationController {
  
      @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
      public String viewRegistration(Model model)
      {
          User userForm = new User();
                  model.addAttribute("userForm", new User());
  
                  /*List&lt;String&gt; professionList = new ArrayList();
                  professionList.add("Developer");
                  professionList.add("Designer");
                  professionList.add("IT Manager");
                  model.put("professionList", professionList);*/
          return "index";
      }
  
      @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
      public String processRegistration(@ModelAttribute("userForm") User user, Map&lt;String, Object&gt; model)
      {       
          System.out.println("Username : " + user.getUserName());
          model.put("userForm", new User());
          return "index";
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>User.java</p>
  
  <pre><code>/*
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   * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
   * and open the template in the editor.
   */
  
  package RegisterInfo.model;
  
  /**
   *
   * @author Harshit Shrivastava
   */
  import java.util.Date;
  
  public class User {
      private String username;
      private String password;
      private String email;
      private Date birthDate;
      private String profession;
  
      public String getUserName()
      {
          return username;
      }
      public void setUserName(String username)
      {
          this.username = username;
      }
          public String getPassword()
      {
          return password;
      }
      public void setPassword(String password)
      {
          this.password = password;
      }
          public String getEmail()
      {
          return email;
      }
      public void setEmail(String email)
      {
          this.email = email;
      }
          public Date getBirthDate()
      {
          return birthDate;
      }
      public void setBirthDate(Date birthDate)
      {
          this.birthDate = birthDate;
      }
          public String getProfession()
      {
          return profession;
      }
      public void setProfession(String profession)
      {
          this.profession = profession;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>web.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;web-app version="3.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"&gt;
      &lt;context-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;contextConfigLocation&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/context-param&gt;
      &lt;listener&gt;
          &lt;listener-class&gt;org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener&lt;/listener-class&gt;
      &lt;/listener&gt;
      &lt;servlet&gt;
          &lt;servlet-name&gt;dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
          &lt;servlet-class&gt;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
          &lt;load-on-startup&gt;2&lt;/load-on-startup&gt;
      &lt;/servlet&gt;
      &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
          &lt;servlet-name&gt;dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
          &lt;url-pattern&gt;*.htm&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
      &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;session-config&gt;
          &lt;session-timeout&gt;
              30
          &lt;/session-timeout&gt;
      &lt;/session-config&gt;
      &lt;welcome-file-list&gt;
          &lt;welcome-file&gt;index.htm&lt;/welcome-file&gt;
      &lt;/welcome-file-list&gt;
  &lt;/web-app&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>dispatcher-servlet.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
         xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
         xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
         xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
         xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd 
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
         http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd "&gt;
  
      &lt;bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/&gt;
  
      &lt;context:component-scan base-package="SpringRegister" /&gt;
      &lt;mvc:annotation-driven /&gt;
      &lt;!--
      Most controllers will use the ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping above, but
      for the index controller we are using ParameterizableViewController, so we must
      define an explicit mapping for it.
      --&gt;
      &lt;bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping"&gt;
          &lt;property name="mappings"&gt;
              &lt;props&gt;
                  &lt;prop key="index.htm"&gt;indexController&lt;/prop&gt;
              &lt;/props&gt;
          &lt;/property&gt;
      &lt;/bean&gt;
  
      &lt;bean id="viewResolver"
            class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
            p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
            p:suffix=".jsp" /&gt;
  
      &lt;!--
      The index controller.
      --&gt;
      &lt;bean name="indexController"
            class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController"
            p:viewName="index" /&gt;
  
  &lt;/beans&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Project Structure :</p>
  
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  <p>In the above program, I am always getting the <code>404 not found status</code>. I tried</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://localhost:8080/RegisterInfoMaven/index" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/RegisterInfoMaven/index</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://localhost:8080/RegisterInfoMaven/index.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:8080/RegisterInfoMaven/index.htm</a></p>
  
  <p>both not working.</p>
  
  <p>When I remove web.xml &amp; dispatcher-servlet.xml from the project, then <code>http://localhost:8080/RegisterInfoMaven/index.jsp</code> loads fine, but as I put <code>web.xml &amp; dispatcher-servlet.xml</code>, then again it starts giving <code>404 not found</code> error.</p>
  
  <p>What is wrong with <code>web.xml &amp; dispatcher-servlet.xml</code> files ?</p>