On running spring boot war from cmd getting error resolving template exception in thymeleaf - spring-boot

On running the spring boot war file from the command line why I am getting the below error in thymeleaf :
Error resolving template, template might not exist or might not be accessible by any of the configured Template Resolvers.
I have changed the default thymeleaf template folder location using spring.thymeleaf.prefix property in application properties file. However, when I run the same code using IDEs it works perfectly fine.

Oh ok I got the issue, it was with the html file name which i was returning from my controller. I was using / with the file name (e.g. /index) because of which it was failing. But i am amazed that the IDEs are smart enough to detect that issue and somehow internally auto corrected it while running. That's why it was running via IDEs but failing while running the war from command line.

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url after spring maven deployment

I have a basic question about deployment but I can't seem to find an answer on google...
I am working on a jakarta project and it's the first time I do the deployment.
Since I am using Spring-boot maven, I know there is an embedded tomcat that will launch with the jar.
My issue is, I don't know what url to use to check my project is working...
Before, I used the address http://localhost:9091/contextPath/endpoint, but now, I only get a whiteScreen...
So my question is, what url should I use ? Also, is there something else to do after packaging ?
Thank you for your answers.
EDIT:
Alright, so I tried actuator but that didn't help me...
With /actuator/mappings, I could see that my endpoints are correctly configured but when I use the executable jar, http://localhost:9091/contextPath/endpoint odes not work while it does if I compile with my IDE...
I don't know what url to connect to just to see the index... I'm using a very basic spring framework (boot and mvc) and my IDE is intellij community if this helps anyone
EDIT 2:
I tried to deploy the app on a local Tomcat9 to see if something would change but the connexion is reinitialized everytime I try to deploy a war using the manager, and there was no trace of error in the logs.
I tried using ./mvnw and it did work, endpoint and all, but it implies working with IDE environment
I tried using java (openjdk 13) and it compiled, but i couldn"t acces my own endpoint. I could still access the actuator endpoints so i don't know what to make of it.
Should the url be different depending on whether we are using IDE environment or just the jar?
EDIT 3:
Ok, I think have a lead but I have no idea how to resolve this:
when I began the web part of the application, I created a WEB-INF folder where I put all my jsp. My js and css files were in the resources/static folder. I tried once to put the jsp in the resources folder but it didn't work so I didn't push too hard.
Now, when I unzip the jar, i find my css and js files, but not my jsp.
When I unzip my war file, I have everything, but when I try to deploy it on a separate tomcat server, the connexion resets and I don't know why because nothing is written in the logs.
The issue then becomes:
Right now, I have
└──src
└──main
├──java
├──resources
| ├──static
| | ├──css
| | └──js
| └──template
└──webapp
└──WEB-INF
└──classes
└──jsp
What is the standard tree in intellij with jsp ?
By default Spring Boot apps are on port 8080.
Can you try http://localhost:8080?
Port can be changed in application.properties (or application.yml, application-profile.properties etc.) via server.port property (e.g. server.port=8888).
Ok, I managed to make it work.
I'm going to describe here everything of note that I encountered.
First, when I called my app to the usual url, there was no response (whiteLabel).
I added test logs and i found that I indeed called m controller.
I unzipped the jar and war i produced and came to the conclusion that the issue was architectural. I couldn't use jar, I had to use the war file.
I tried to deploy on a local tomcat server using the manager, but it always resetted the connection, so I took the manual approach - copy pasting the war file in the webapp directory.
Finally, the web pages were accessible in the browser.
Thank you for all the tips given during my research!
`http://endpoint:{PORT}/actuator/health` or `http://endpoint:{PORT}/actuator/status`
it should help but it must require spring-boot-actuator as a dependency in your pom/gradle file.

Where is the work directory of embedded tomcat for a spring boot / spring mvc application?

I would like to ask where is the location where you can see the work directory of a spring boot / spring mvc applicaiton. Specifically I want to know Transpiled JSP files converted to java files.
I can see the class files inside the target directory, but cannot find the transpiled jsp files. Is there a class call where I can see it in my environment? Like System.getProperty("user.dir") or new java.io.File(".").getCanonicalPath(). I tried both and it only showed me the code path.
Also, I know the Eclipse Server path. But in spring boot, it does not seem to run using a server instance of tomcat. So the following path is not existing?
The following directory is also blank.
projectworkspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/
The base dir is set via the property server.tomcat.basedir, see: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/appendix-application-properties.html
The work dir is derrived from there by appending /work.

Can't access static file from Spring Boot application running in Tomcat servlet

All I want to do is access a specific file in a Java class. I am using Spring Boot 2.0.0.M7. When I run from my development machine using mvn spring-boot:run then everything works well. In that case I am using:
File jFile = new File("src/main/resources/static/folder/fileName.txt");
When I deploy this to a Tomcat server (8.5) as a war, the file is put into:
WEB-INF/classes/static/folder/fileName.txt
I've tried everything I could find or think of, but always get an error of some sort, usually a file not found exception.
My most recent attempt was:
URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("fileName.txt");
File jFile = new File(url.getPath());
That produces a null pointer exception with url.getPath().
I have read about needing to access the servlet config, but couldn't ever understand that well enough to get it to work. Does anyone have a clear example so that I can access the file both from the development context and the production context? Thanks!

WAS Liberty not serving images, css, js

I have an application which is working fine on Websphere server (as war and Eclipse Project).
Direct deploy on Liberty through WAR is also working fine.
I was trying to deploy it on WAS Liberty through Eclipse project. There are no console errors but once the application loads, none of the following files are getting loaded in the web page: js, gif, css
Because of this the page is looking distorted and most of the functionality is lost.
Surprisingly there are some JSPs in the js folder and these are getting loaded, so looks like the folders are published properly. But for all the mentioned files (js etc), I get following error in the browser console: 500 (Internal Server Error) .
There are no errors and the server log is also clean.
My setup: WAS Liberty 8.5, RHEL 6.5. Eclipse Luna, WDT 8.5.5.2. Project having Eclipse structure, not maven.
I have tried both loose config and 'from workspace' settings
Edit1: I noticed that Spring beans are not getting initialized properly. Getting null pointer on applicationContext.getBean.
OK, found the problem.
As I guessed this was related to spring initialization, though the problem was more code related.
Due to wrong implementation of REST implementation, where the base path was set as root application path (“/”), rest API classes were getting instantiated on application load and were then making calls to code which was instantiating few Spring beans.
But at this point the Spring listeners had not fired, hence the appcontext was empty. Some of the base application object were getting initialized with empty beans and hence spring security context and related classes were failing to serve the application content properly. (Problem is spring related code is created by another team and we just get the jar, hence I am not even able to debug it properly, so I don't know where it was failing exactly)
The thing that makes it Liberty specific is: The same problematic code is working fine on Websphere full profile and Weblogic and even on Liberty if we deploy as WAR. Not sure what classloading difference is causing difference in behaviour.
Thanks to all who took time and efforts for replying.
I am facing the same issue using open liberty and Eclipse Krazo when the base path is
application path (“/”)
so i have changed the path as shown below
package io.openliberty.sample;
import javax.ws.rs.ApplicationPath;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Application;
#ApplicationPath("")
public class ConfigApplication extends Application {
}
Now the CSS and imgs are loading with no issues.

Grails Package name wont change

I have started learning Grails and now familiarizing with configurations.
To change the default package name for my grails project i entered the following in
config.groovy
grails.project.groupId = com.grailspractice.nick
Then ,
grails create-controller testc
But the files are not being created in the package domain structure.
I get the following structure instead
Created file grails-app/controllers/testapp/TestcController.groovy
Created file grails-app/views/testc
Created file test/unit/testapp/TestcControllerSpec.groovy
Please tell me if i am missing anything else.
Also If I run my app using
grails run-app
Then the application runs fine, but if in a separate command window if i create a controller while the application is running i get the following error on my prompt where the app was running
grails error cannot get property on cache operation source null object
Is it an installation problem? Or have i messed up any configuration?

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