Spring-Boot html in /templates don't render from command line - spring-boot

Question

I have read several online posts about this issue, but for some reason none of those helped me solve this. I looked at the spring-boot examples and I don't think I am doing much different than those.
I am using Spring-boot 1.2.1, Thymeleaf, embedded tomcat without issue in IntelliJ. However, when I do a "gradle clean build", move the jar file, and an application.properties file to a deploy directory. I then start on the command with:
java -jar edm-0.1.0.jar
org.thymeleaf.exceptions.TemplateInputException: Error resolving template "/loginPage", template might not exist or might not be accessible by any of the configured Template Resolvers
at org.thymeleaf.TemplateRepository.getTemplate(TemplateRepository.java:245)
I am letting spring-boot configure my site for the most part. I am using the recommended directory structure:
I can hit the index page, and the REST calls seem to work just fine.
UPDATE based upon feedback:
I don't know if this is a broken jar issue, but when I extract it the structure and files appear correct. I can run "gradle bootRun" from the top of my project structure just fine. But if I deploy the jar file and run it, I get an error:
Task 'bootRun' not found in root project 'edm'
Here is my build.gradle file in case there might be an issue in it:
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
apply plugin: 'jacoco'
apply plugin: 'maven'
idea {
project {
//if you want to set specific jdk and language level
jdkName = '1.8'
languageLevel = '1.8'
}
}
jacoco {
toolVersion = "0.7.0.201403182114"
}
project.ext {
springBootVersion = '1.2.1.RELEASE'
}
configurations {
querydslapt
}
buildscript {
repositories {
maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone" }
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/libs-snapshot" }
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:$springBootVersion")
}
}
jar {
baseName = 'edm'
version = '0.1.0'
}
dependencies {
querydslapt group: 'com.mysema.querydsl', name: 'querydsl-jpa', version: '2.8.0', classifier: 'apt-one-jar', transitive: false
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:$springBootVersion")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:$springBootVersion")
compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:4.0.0.M1")
compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:4.0.0.M1")
compile('org.thymeleaf.extras:thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity3:2.1.1.RELEASE')
compile('com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.0.1')
compile("org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.3.4.Final")
compile("org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:4.3.4.Final")
compile("org.hibernate:hibernate-validator")
compile("org.apache.velocity:velocity:1.7")
compile('javax.mail:mail:1.4.1')
compile("org.springframework:spring-context-support")
compile("com.h2database:h2:1.3.172")
compile("joda-time:joda-time:2.3")
compile("com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310:2.5.0")
compile("org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.7.1")
compile('org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.2.1')
compile('org.jadira.usertype:usertype.jodatime:2.0.1')
compile("postgresql:postgresql:9.1-901.jdbc4")
testCompile('org.spockframework:spock-core:1.0-groovy-2.0-SNAPSHOT') {
exclude group: 'org.codehaus.groovy', module: 'groovy-all'
}
testCompile('org.spockframework:spock-spring:1.0-groovy-2.0-SNAPSHOT') {
exclude group: 'org.spockframework', module: 'spock-core'
exclude group: 'org.spockframework', module: 'spring-beans'
exclude group: 'org.spockframework', module: 'spring-test'
exclude group: 'org.codehaus.groovy', module: 'groovy-all'
}
testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test:$springBootVersion")
testCompile('org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.7+')
testCompile("junit:junit")
// for the anontation processor
querydslapt group: 'com.mysema.querydsl', name: 'querydsl-jpa', version: '2.8.0', classifier: 'apt-one-jar', transitive: false
// for compiling
compile("com.mysema.querydsl:querydsl-jpa:3.3.3")
compile("com.mysema.querydsl:querydsl-apt:3.3.3")
}
task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
gradleVersion = '2.0'
}
project.configurations {
providedRuntime
}
project.bootRepackage {
enabled = true
}
I also tried adding some thymeleaf configuration (even though I am not explicitly using Thymeleaf) to my application.properties file:
liquibase.changeLog=classpath:/db/changelog/db.changelog-master.xml
spring.thymeleaf.prefix=classpath:/templates/
spring.thymeleaf.suffix=.html
spring.thymeleaf.check-template-location=true
So I guess my question is, why does running the "java -jar" not let me view the webpages?

Answer 1

It turns out that my REST controllers were proceeded by "/" so login page became "//loginPage" and that was causing the problem. I found the answer here but it took me a while to realize that was the issue. Hopefully this answer will help out someone in the future as it as a bear to figure out.