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Merge pull request spring-projects#32004 from ionascustefanciprian
* pr/32004: Polish contribution Document the DefaultServlet is no longer being enabled by default Closes spring-projectsgh-32004
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By default, Spring Boot serves static content from a directory called `/static` (or `/public` or `/resources` or `/META-INF/resources`) in the classpath or from the root of the `ServletContext`.
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It uses the `ResourceHttpRequestHandler` from Spring MVC so that you can modify that behavior by adding your own `WebMvcConfigurer` and overriding the `addResourceHandlers` method.
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In a stand-alone web application, the default servlet from the container is also enabled and acts as a fallback, serving content from the root of the `ServletContext` if Spring decides not to handle it.
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In a stand-alone web application, the default servlet from the container is not enabled.
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It can be enabled using the configprop:server.servlet.register-default-servlet[] property.
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The default servlet acts as a fallback, serving content from the root of the `ServletContext` if Spring decides not to handle it.
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Most of the time, this does not happen (unless you modify the default MVC configuration), because Spring can always handle requests through the `DispatcherServlet`.
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By default, resources are mapped on `+/**+`, but you can tune that with the configprop:spring.mvc.static-path-pattern[] property.

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