No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/FitnessTracker/] - spring

Question

I am getting an warnning in springmvc
as No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/FitnessTracker/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'fitTrackerServlet'
INFO: FrameworkServlet 'fitTrackerServlet': initialization completed in 2194 ms
Feb 26, 2017 9:43:08 AM org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet noHandlerFound
WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/FitnessTracker/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'fitTrackerServlet'
When i press url http://localhost:8080/fitnessTracker/ I am getting 404 error.
Thanks
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>fitTrackerServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/config/servlet-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>fitTrackerServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
</web-app>
and my servlet-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.pluralsight.controller"></context:component-scan>
<!--
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
-->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp"/>
</beans>
and my controller
#Controller
public class HelloController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/greeting")
public String sayHello (Model model) {
System.out.println("Test");
model.addAttribute("greeting", "Hello WorldX");
return "hello";
}
}

Answer 1

Does your component-scan base-package match the package where your HelloController is in? If not, that is the problem.
<context:component-scan base-package="com.pluralsight.controller"></context:component-scan>
Configures component scanning directives for use with #Configuration
classes. Either basePackageClasses() or
basePackages() (or its alias value()) may be specified to define
specific packages to scan.
Spring does not find your HelloController and so doesn't map anything.
Otherwise you could also follow these steps.

Answer 2

I am wondering why you have you application configured with XML. With this tool you can start a maven project with a Spring boot application that will be, by default, already configured to build exactly what you want.
Then you only need a class with:
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/fitnessTracker")
public class HelloController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/greeting")
public String sayHello (Model model) {
System.out.println("Test");
model.addAttribute("greeting", "Hello WorldX");
return "hello";
}
}
And that's it, Spring will do the rest for you ;)

Answer 3

In my case the problem was that i was using this url-pattern
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
instead of this
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
and also i had to add
#RequestMapping(value = "/fitnessTracker")
under the
#Controller
annotation.
I found the solution at : https://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-404-error for the pattern.