Spring Security - Redirect to custom login page without going through controller - spring

Question

I am currently using Spring Boot + Spring Security to develop a simple website that need user to login to access it. I have created my own custom static login page under resources/templates1/bruceLogin1.html. Any unathenticated access to my website to first be redirected to the login page URL which is http://localhost:8080/templates1/bruceLogin1.html
Note: that I am NOT creating any controller for this login URL, hence I am expecting the bruceLogin1.html to be accessed directly bypassing controller. Because i directly allow access to this html page without going thru controller, I assume no view resolver (e.g thymleaf) is required.
I open my browser, and enter http://localhost:8080/blablabl, and browser redirect me to http://localhost:8080/templates1/bruceLogin1.html , but sadly, i got error
Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.
Sat Jan 11 12:40:37 SGT 2020
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).
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Below is my configuration,
#SpringBootApplication
#EnableWebSecurity
public class SpringSecurityCatalogApplication implements WebMvcConfigurer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(SpringSecurityCatalogApplication.class, args);
}
#EnableWebSecurity
#Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
#Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http
.authorizeRequests()
.antMatchers("/resources/**").permitAll()
.anyRequest().authenticated()
.and()
.formLogin()
.loginPage("/templates1/bruceLogin1.html")
.permitAll();
}
}
}

Answer 1

Think instead of putting under resources/template1 folder, i will just put the custom login page into either resources/static or resources/public folder.
Then configure as shown below
#EnableWebSecurity
#Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
#Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
http
.authorizeRequests()
.antMatchers("/resources/**").permitAll()
.anyRequest().authenticated()
.and()
.formLogin()
.loginPage("/bruceLogin1.html")
.permitAll();
}
}
Open browser and access any URL, you will be redirected to http://localhost:8080/bruceLogin1.html. And thats it!
Note that this does not require any controller nor view resolver.