spring boot runs but the pages are not accessible

Question

When I access my app via browser I get an 404 (Whitelabel Error Page). After searching around, I think it could be a problem with my sitemesh filter.

@Bean
public FilterRegistrationBean sitemesh() throws Exception {
    FilterRegistrationBean filterRegistrationBean = new FilterRegistrationBean();
    filterRegistrationBean.setFilter(new MySiteMeshFilter());
    return filterRegistrationBean;
}

MySitemeshFilter:

protected static class MySiteMeshFilter extends ConfigurableSiteMeshFilter {    
    protected void applyCustomConfiguration(SiteMeshFilterBuilder builder) {
        builder.addDecoratorPath("/*", "/decorators/basic-theme.jsp");
    }       
}

What do you think? Thank you!

EDIT: It could be also possible, that my Security Configuration is the problem:

@Configuration
@Order(SecurityProperties.ACCESS_OVERRIDE_ORDER)
public class ApplicationSecurity extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    private MongoTemplate mongoTemplate;

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/", "/error").permitAll()
                                .antMatchers("/register*", "/login", "/lostPassword").anonymous()
                                .antMatchers("/admin","/admin**").hasRole("ADMIN")
                                .antMatchers("/user", "/user/**", "/offer/*", "/page", "/page/**").hasAnyRole("USER", "COMPANY_USER", "COMPANY_MASTER", "ADMIN")
                                .antMatchers("/company", "/company/**").hasAnyRole("COMPANY_USER", "COMPANY_MASTER", "ADMIN")
                                .anyRequest().authenticated()
                                .and()
                                .formLogin().loginPage("/login").failureUrl("/login?error=true").usernameParameter("username").passwordParameter("password").loginProcessingUrl("/security_check")
                                .successHandler(new MyAuthenticationSuccessHandler(this.mongoTemplate));

        http.logout().logoutUrl("/logout").invalidateHttpSession(true).logoutSuccessUrl("/");
    }

    @Override
    public void configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
        auth.userDetailsService(new MyUserDetailsService(this.mongoTemplate)).passwordEncoder(new ShaPasswordEncoder(256));
    }

}

EDIT 2: The controllers are not resolved. Setting the @ComponentScan "basePackages" attribute helps. The controller-methods are now being executed. But it looks like spring boot cannot find my views(directory) to render the page.

EDIT 3: This is a part of my logging output. Is there anything unusual? It starts with INFO log (log4j) "starting page" which I put in the method ("/") of my controller. The controller method belonging to the RequestMapping is fired, but I think spring boot cannot find the jsp.

2014-12-30 10:20:09.422  INFO 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] c.l.c.controller.PublicController        : starting page
2014-12-30 10:20:09.426 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.v.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver : Requested media types are [text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml;q=0.9, */*;q=0.8] based on Accept header types and producible media types [*/*])
2014-12-30 10:20:09.427 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver  : No matching bean found for view name 'home'
2014-12-30 10:20:09.427 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.v.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver : Returning [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView: name 'home'; URL [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp]] based on requested media type 'text/html'
2014-12-30 10:20:09.427 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Rendering view [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView: name 'home'; URL [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp]] in DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet'
2014-12-30 10:20:09.433 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.view.JstlView            : Forwarding to resource [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp] in InternalResourceView 'home'
2014-12-30 10:20:09.435 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet' processing GET request for [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.436 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Looking up handler method for path /WEB-INF/views/home.jsp
2014-12-30 10:20:09.446 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Did not find handler method for [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.446 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Matching patterns for request [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp] are [/**]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.446 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : URI Template variables for request [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp] are {}
2014-12-30 10:20:09.447 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Mapping [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp] to HandlerExecutionChain with handler [ResourceHttpRequestHandler [locations=[ServletContext resource [/], class path resource [META-INF/resources/], class path resource [resources/], class path resource [static/], class path resource [public/]], resolvers=[org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.PathResourceResolver@727d5eda]]] and 1 interceptor
2014-12-30 10:20:09.448 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Last-Modified value for [/WEB-INF/views/home.jsp] is: -1
2014-12-30 10:20:09.448 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Null ModelAndView returned to DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet': assuming HandlerAdapter completed request handling
2014-12-30 10:20:09.448 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Successfully completed request
2014-12-30 10:20:09.449 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Successfully completed request
2014-12-30 10:20:09.450 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet' processing GET request for [/error]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.451 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Looking up handler method for path /error
2014-12-30 10:20:09.452 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] s.w.s.m.m.a.RequestMappingHandlerMapping : Returning handler method [public org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.BasicErrorController.errorHtml(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest)]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.452 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Last-Modified value for [/error] is: -1
2014-12-30 10:20:09.453 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.v.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver : Requested media types are [text/html, text/html;q=0.8] based on Accept header types and producible media types [text/html])
2014-12-30 10:20:09.453 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.w.s.v.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver : Returning [org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.ErrorMvcAutoConfiguration$SpelView@5dbc9982] based on requested media type 'text/html'
2014-12-30 10:20:09.453 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Rendering view [org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.ErrorMvcAutoConfiguration$SpelView@5dbc9982] in DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet'
2014-12-30 10:20:09.454 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-3] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Successfully completed request
2014-12-30 10:20:09.480 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet' processing GET request for [/favicon.ico]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.481 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Matching patterns for request [/favicon.ico] are [/**/favicon.ico]
2014-12-30 10:20:09.481 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : URI Template variables for request [/favicon.ico] are {}
2014-12-30 10:20:09.481 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.w.s.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping  : Mapping [/favicon.ico] to HandlerExecutionChain with handler [ResourceHttpRequestHandler [locations=[class path resource [META-INF/resources/], class path resource [resources/], class path resource [static/], class path resource [public/], class path resource []], resolvers=[org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.PathResourceResolver@1742114b]]] and 1 interceptor
2014-12-30 10:20:09.481 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Last-Modified value for [/favicon.ico] is: -1
2014-12-30 10:20:09.490 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Null ModelAndView returned to DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet': assuming HandlerAdapter completed request handling
2014-12-30 10:20:09.491 DEBUG 5884 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Successfully completed request

In my application.properties I added:

spring.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/views/
spring.view.suffix=.jsp

Your security is fine. If it was security related you would get a 403 or 401. Enable debug logging and check your logs for what is going on. — M. Deinum, Dec 29 '14 at 18:51
On start up Spring Boot logs all the http endpoint mappings. Can you see the one you're looking for listed there? — kaviddiss, Dec 30 '14 at 05:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

For any of you who stumbled here looking for an answer to 'o.s.w.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver : No matching bean found for view name 'home'', Spring has tried and failed to locate a view resolver for 'home'.

If it is pure html you want to serve, you need just return '/home.html' from your controller. Spring will look for this file under /src/main/resources/static and return a response accordingly.

For other ways to resolve views, read this excellent answer, How to map requests to HTML file in Spring MVC?

spring boot runs but the pages are not accessible

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