Where to place the robots.txt file on jetty server? - jetty

Question

I have recently started checking for the security vulnerabilities of our web application through a tool called Zap. After running it I came across that I've to include the robots.txt as well in our webapp.
The tool is looking for the file in the root directory of the webapp (https://localhost:8080) and the file is presented there, but it throws an error saying "file not found".
The webserver I am running is Jetty-9.3.8 and following is the tree structure of the webapp
etc
- webdefault.xml
webapps
- myapp
- web.xml
- generated-web.xml
robots.txt
We're using embedded jetty to start the server. Like this:
WebAppContext context = new WebAppContext();
context.setContextPath("/myapp");
context.setWar(jettyHome + "/webapps/myapp/");
context.setDefaultsDescriptor(jettyHome + "/etc/webdefault.xml");
File overrideFile = new File(jettyHome
+ "/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/generated-web.xml");
if (overrideFile.exists()) {
context.setOverrideDescriptor(jettyHome
+ "/webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/generated-web.xml");
}
server.setHandler(context);
server.start();
So, how to place the file in the root directory isn't what I am getting.
Anybody has any idea about this?

Answer 1

You'll need a something serving static content from the contextPath of / for that to work.
Add another WebAppContext or ServletContextPath or ResourceHandler to serve the file. Make sure that you have ...
context.setContextPath("/") set
context.setBaseResource(Resource.newResource("uri/path/to/my/static/content")