JSTL error (HTTP Status 404 - /JSTL/home) [duplicate]

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I am trying to use redirect tag for directing index page to the home page residing in my web project's JSP folder. The hierarchy of my project is as under:

WEB-INF
     jsp
        home.jsp
index.jsp

I am using both the libraries jstl 1.2 and standard.jar Following is the code of my index.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="core" uri="/tags/c" %>

<core:redirect url="/home"></core:redirect>

When i run the project i recieve the following error;

HTTP Status 404 - /JSTL/home
type Status report
message /JSTL/home
description The requested resource (/JSTL/home) is not available.

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Files in /WEB-INF are not public accessible (it's not available when you enter their address in browser address bar). The <jsp:include> and any servlets using RequestDispatcher are the only which can access them.

So if you have a controller servlet which is mapped on /* and dispatches the request as follows

request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp" + request.getPathInfo() + ".jsp").forward(request, response);

then your <c:redirect> will work. But if you don't have such a controller, then you should use <jsp:include> or move the home.jsp into public webcontent (there where your index.jsp also is) and redirect to home.jsp instead.

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Unrelated to the problem, the way you declared the JSTL taglib doesn't give me a strong feeling you're doing things the right way or reading the proper tutorials. I suggest you to take a look in our JSTL tag wiki.

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You need to redirect to "/home.jsp", not just "/home".