Why do I always get Whitelabel Error Page with status “404” while running a simple Spring Boot Application

My Controller

@Controller
//@RequestMapping("/")
//@ComponentScan("com.spring")
//@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class HomeController {

    @Value("${framework.welcomeMessage}")
    private String message;

    @RequestMapping("/hello")
    String home(ModelMap model) {
        System.out.println("hittin the controller...");
        model.addAttribute("welcomeMessage", "vsdfgfgd");
        return "Hello World!";
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/indexPage", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    String index(ModelMap model) {
        System.out.println("hittin the index controller...");
        model.addAttribute("welcomeMessage", message);
        return "welcome";
    }

    @RequestMapping(value = "/indexPageWithModel", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    ModelAndView indexModel(ModelMap model) {
        System.out.println("hittin the indexPageWithModel controller...");
        model.addAttribute("welcomeMessage", message);
        return new ModelAndView("welcome", model);
    }
}

My JSP (welcome.jsp) inside /WEB-INF/jsp (parent folder is WebContent)

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Welcome to Spring Boot</title>
</head>

<body>
<%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>
Message: ${message}
</body>
</html>

My pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>SpringBootPlay</groupId>
    <artifactId>SpringBootPlay</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.17</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.jcabi</groupId>
            <artifactId>jcabi-log</artifactId>
            <version>0.17</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <start-class>com.spring.play.BootLoader</start-class>
        <main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
        <m2eclipse.wtp.contextRoot>/</m2eclipse.wtp.contextRoot>
    </properties>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

My App Initializer

@EnableAutoConfiguration
@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan({ "com.spring.controller" })
@PropertySources(value = { @PropertySource("classpath:/application.properties") })
public class BootLoader extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(BootLoader.class);

    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(BootLoader.class);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(BootLoader.class, args);
    }
}

I even added thymeleaf dependency to my pom. It still didn’t work. When ever I hit localhost:8080/hello or /indexPage or /indexPageWithModel it always says

Whitelabel Error Page

This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.

Wed Sep 21 21:34:18 EDT 2016 There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404). ]/WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp

My application.properties

spring.mvc.view.prefix: /WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix: .jsp
framework.welcomeMessage=Welcome to Dashboard

Please help me. Thanks!

Answer

Figured it out myself.

When I converted my dynamic webproject into maven project it did not create the folder structure this way

src/main/java

and

src/main/resources

and

src/main/webapp

I manually created myself and moved the jsp files from WebContent/WEB-INF/jsp to src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp and modified the Java build path in the project properties.

Then I restarted the embedded tomcat and tried it again. It worked.

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