Hello,

I am trying to eliminate unnecessary duplication of code by using include 
directives.  Currently my directory structure is like this:

[main app directory]
index.jsp
header.jsp
footer.jsp
[admin subdirectory]
index.jsp

The index.jsp file in the main directory contains the code <%@ include 
file="header.jsp" %> and it works great.

In the admin directory the index.jsp file contains this code <%@ include 
file="../header.jsp" %> obviously referencing to the parent directory, where 
the header.jsp file sits.  I don't want to have to copy it to the child 
directory and maintain two copies of it.

But when I do this, I get an error every time.  What am I doing wrong?  You can 
find the error below.

Justin

HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report
message 
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from 
fulfilling this request.
exception 
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(4,0) File "/../header.jsp" not 
found
        
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:512)
        
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:377)
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
root cause 
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(4,0) File "/../header.jsp" not 
found
        
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:39)
        
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:405)
        
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:86)
        
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.processIncludeDirective(Parser.java:339)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseIncludeDirective(Parser.java:372)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:484)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseElements(Parser.java:1556)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:126)
        
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:211)
        
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parse(ParserController.java:100)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:155)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:295)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:276)
        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:264)
        
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:563)
        
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:305)
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)





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