Can't find url views when deploying spring boot on WebSphere - spring

Question

I'm starting a simple project in spring boot, right now I just want to show a startup view, but when deploying on a WebSphere 9 server, it appears when I start "Error 404: SRVE0190E: File not Found: /"
and if I put the url of another controller method for example /login
the same error comes out
"Error 404: java.io.FileNotFoundException: SRVE0190E: File not Found: /login"
This is my controller
#Controller
public class HomeController {
#RequestMapping(value="/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String home() {
return "example";
}
#RequestMapping(value="/login", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String login() {
return "example.html";
}
}
Create the explame.html in several places of the project to know if spring recognized it in any of them, but I always got the same message, I leave an image of the initial project structure and my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>org.com.ioks</groupId>
<artifactId>ExampleFirst</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>ExampleFirst</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</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>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Milestones</name>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>spring-snapshots</id>
<name>Spring Snapshots</name>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Milestones</name>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
</pluginRepository>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-snapshots</id>
<name>Spring Snapshots</name>
<url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
structure project
UPDATE
I was able to visualize my start view with / and / login, as I indicated in my controller, it was as #Jalil.Jarjanazy told me in his answer, I put the html file in templates, but not in templates of the empty package that is in src , because when I want to add something there, it shows me the message: "Files created outside of a web content folder will not be included in your deployed Web application.
", I added it in WEB-INF / classes / templates, another very strange thing is that in Eclipse it does not show me the classes folder, but it is in the project, I manually put the html file and ran the project, I think this is not is the proper way to do it, could you tell me what I'm doing wrong, why can't I see the folder classes in eclipse?

Answer 1

Your example.html file should be in the templates folder.
And you should only return the only name of the html file (example) in your controller, so no need for the .html.