Spring Boot JAR Not Working on Windows Server

Question

I have one web app which is working fine on the local machine, but when I am trying to deploy the same JAR to one of my windows server, it's not working fine. it's running as a service but when I'm trying to access the web app through the Browser it doesn't render anything, is their any additional configuration is required in order to deploy it and up it over windows server, any help will be highly appreciable, the stack that I'm using the Web App is mentioned below.

Spring Boot - 1.4.7.RELEASE

Java - Version - 1.8

MySQL - 5.7

Embedded Tomcat Version- 8.5.15

@SpringBootApplication
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.abc.xyz")
public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

    @Override
    protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(Application.class);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

application.properties file is as follows

 #JPA
    #spring.datasource.hikari.username = root
    #spring.datasource.hikari.password = root
    #spring.datasource.hikari.jdbc-url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbname?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8
    #spring.datasource.type = com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource
    spring.datasource.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
    spring.datasource.username = root
    spring.datasource.password = xyz
    spring.datasource.url = jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbname?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useSSL=false

    spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = update
    spring.jpa.show-sql = false
    #spring.jpa.format-sql = true
    spring.jpa.database-platform = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
    spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class = org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.SpringSessionContext
    spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
    #Logging
    logging.level.org.springframework = INFO
    logging.level.org.hibernate = INFO
    logging.level.com.karza = INFO
    logging.file= D:/abc/xyz.log
    # MVC
    #spring.view.prefix=/templates/views/
    #spring.view.suffix=.jsp
    spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/views/
    spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp
    #spring.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/views/
    #spring.view.suffix=.jsp
    #server
    server.context-path = /
    server.port = 8090
    server.compression.enabled = true
    server.compression.mime-types = application/json,application/xml,text/html,text/xml,text/plain

pom.xml is as follows

<?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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.abc.xyz</groupId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>ABC</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.7.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath /> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jersey</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId> 
            </dependency> -->
         <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
        </dependency> 
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
            <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId> 
            <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId> 
            <artifactId>spring-security-test</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> -->
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
            <version>3.4</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId> 
            </dependency> -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
            <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
            <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
            <version>3.4.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
            <!-- <version>1.4.196</version> -->
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sf.flexjson</groupId>
            <artifactId>flexjson</artifactId>
            <version>3.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>applicationinsights-web</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-storage</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>applicationinsights-logging-logback</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.17</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-svc-mgmt</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-svc-mgmt-compute</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-svc-mgmt-network</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-svc-mgmt-sql</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-svc-mgmt-storage</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
            <artifactId>azure-svc-mgmt-websites</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.7</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc-portlet</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
     <plugins>
        <plugin> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId> 
            </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <executable>true</executable>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins> 
      <!-- <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.7.RELEASE</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins> -->
</build>


    <artifactId>ABC</artifactId>
</project>

Do you have logging enabled? All environment variables configured properly (especially profiles). — Lakatos Gyula, Oct 10 '17 at 10:13
@LakatosGyula yes everything is defined properly and logging has been enabled, can you be a bit more discreet about profiles, I don't get it, what exactly do you mean by profiles. Everything right from environment variables to configuration everything is well defined — Mavericks, Oct 10 '17 at 10:24
@mrtasln i have updated the question and attached my Main class. — Mavericks, Oct 10 '17 at 10:27
can you try packaging with maven as described here https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/build-tool-plugins-maven-plugin.html — Gokhan Celikkaya, Oct 10 '17 at 10:30
@GökhanÇelikkaya I did tried the packaging from the aforesaid link but no success. — Mavericks, Oct 10 '17 at 11:09
@mrtasln I did try after removing tomcat, however, it makes no any differences. — Mavericks, Oct 10 '17 at 11:13
Can you add more detail about your configurations like application.properties ,pom file — mrtasln, Oct 10 '17 at 11:23
@mrtasln i have updated the question and attached the pom and application.properties file — Mavericks, Oct 10 '17 at 11:46
Hi @Mavericks I'm facing the same damn issue, Could you tell me how you go through with it? — Sasuke Uchiha, May 19 '20 at 10:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '17 at 10:52

I just updated the pom.XML, I updated it from JAR to war and run it as WAR and it worked, I executed it JAVA -jar APPLICATION_NAME.jar, and it worked like charm. Hope this will help others as well.

Citing the link which saved me.

https://www.mkyong.com/spring-boot/spring-boot-hello-world-example-jsp/

Spring Boot JAR Not Working on Windows Server

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