unable to find properties file in intellij idea classpath - intellij-idea

Question

I have spent last 2 hours just to add a properties file in my IntelliJ IDEA classpath. I am an Eclipse user and find it embarrassing that I am unable to do it in IDEA. I have a .properties file in my IntelliJ IDEA project and it's added in the classpath but still at runtime I am getting exception that file is not present.
I have followed all the answers in this question Add a properties file to IntelliJ's classpath
I have done the following things:-
1)
Go to Project Structure.
Select your module.
Find the folder in the tree on the right and select it.
Click the Sources button above that tree (with the blue folder) to make that folder a sources folder.
2)I have checked that settings->compiler->resource patterns has entry for ?*.properties
3) I have added the below tag in my pom.xml
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
Can someone help me here?
Further update. It's a maven web application project. I am trying to access the .properties file in my servlet. My servlet sits in src/main/java/some_package and my .properties file sits in src/main/resources/some_package.
try {
Properties prop = new Properties();
InputStream input = null;
try {
input = new FileInputStream("package\\myProperty.properties");
// load a properties file
prop.load(input);
// get the property value and print it out
System.out.println("reading the property file " );
System.out.println("prop1 =" + prop.getProperty("prop1"));
System.out.println("prop2 = " + prop.getProperty("prop2"));
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (input != null) {
try {
input.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Answer 1

I found that you should not mention .properties while looking for the file name
IF file is say abc.properties then just look for abc instead of abc.properties

Answer 2

Generally, marking the right directories as source ones does solve the problem, but I found there's another important detail. You need to make sure that your working directory (can be found in Run Configurations) is set correctly. In my project it was set to the wrong directory for some reason, and since Java tries to find the *.properties file in the working directory (unless you specify an absolute path in your code), the client.properties in my properties wasn't found - it just wasn't present in the "wrong" working directory.
P.S. I'm a junior dev with little experience and this is my first answer here, so I may not have described everything perfectly and/or correctly, but I spent 2+ hours trying to figure out why my properties file wasn't loading, so I hope this helps someone who's in the same predicament. Happy coding :)