There are 2 things in
JSF that
look almost identical, but refer to 2 very different things.
A
URL path. For example,
http://https://coderanch.com/forums/posts/reply/0/636227
A
Resource path. For example, /templates/other.xhtml
A URL is what the client uses to send a request to the server. A Resource is a "file" (see below) that is part of the WAR used to satisfy the URL request. In the case of a JSF View, the FacesServlet tears down a URL such as
http://myhost:8080/mywebapp/templates/other.jsf" and constructs the corresponding template resource path /templates/other.xhtml.
Navigation uses the local URL path, not the resource path. So it would be /templates/other.jsf, assuming you're using the "*.jsf" facelet
pattern model.
Note that I said "file". In actuality, a WAR is a single ZIP file and so the resource is just one of the files in the ZIP file, not an actual OS file. That's assuming that your web server doesn't explode the WAR into actual files, which many webapp servers so, either by default or as an option.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.