My web App works fine on Eclipse Photon STS, java 8 and Spring Boot 2.02 with the embeded tomcat using endpoint:
http://localhost:8081/DataViewer/tspsPatentSearch
But when I compile the code into DataViewer.war file (using mvn package) and run it on Tomcat 9 on Linux with endpoint:
http://myserver.com:8081/DataViewer/tspsPatentSearch
I get the infamous:
Whitelabel Error Page
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).
/DataViewer/tspsPatentSearch
My pom.xml file is:
`<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>com.clarivate</groupId>
<artifactId>dataviewer</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>dataviewer</name>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<start-class>com.clarivate.dataviewer.DvMain</start-class>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- DS may need to remove for tomcat installation -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j2</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<!-- Required to find ojdbc6, because Oracle don't make it available to maven-->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>codelds</id>
<url>https://code.lds.org/nexus/content/groups/main-repo</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<build>
<finalName>DataViewer</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.clarivate.dataviewer.DvMain</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<description>TSPS data viewer</description>
In application.properties I have:
spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp
server.servlet.path=/DataViewer
My main class is:
package com.clarivate.dataviewer;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
@SpringBootApplication
public class DvMain extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
static Logger logger = LogManager.getRootLogger();
public static void main(String[] args) {
logger.debug("DS1A in main()");
SpringApplication.run(DvMain.class, args);
logger.info("DS1C finished.");
}
//@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder builder) {
return builder.sources(DvMain.class);
}
}
My MainController.java has:
@GetMapping("/tspsPatentSearch")
public String tspsPatentSearch(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("tspsPatent", new TspsPatent());
return "tspsPatentSearch";
}
The war file unpacks fine and there are no errors. In catalina.out we have:
2018-10-04 12:09:09.954 INFO 12950 --- [ main] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Mapped "{[/tspsPatentSearch],methods=[POST]}" onto public java.lang.String com.clarivate.dataviewer.controller.MainController.tspsPatentSearch(com.clarivate.dataviewer.model.TspsPatent,org.springframework.ui.Model,org.springframework.validation.BindingResult)
and no errors. I've tried this ie my package structure is correct and this ie my jsp's are in the correct location (data_viewer\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\jsp) and i'm now running short of ideas. Any help much appreciated
Edit: If I copy tspsPatentSearch.jsp into the war file top directory then tomcat finds it. So it looks like tomcat is ignoring:
spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
or not finding application.properties at all.
