Spring does not show home.html

Question

I am learning Spring Framework. I added home.html in resources/templates/home.html. But it is not visible when I visit http://localhost:8080. I have the following structure:

taco-cloud\src\main\java\tacos\TacoCloudApplication.java

package tacos;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class TacoCloudApplication {

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

}

taco-cloud\src\main\java\tacos\HomeController.java

package tacos;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;

@Controller
public class HomeController 
{
    @GetMapping("/")
    public String home()
    {
        return "home.html";
    }
}

taco-cloud\src\main\resources\static\home.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
 xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
 <head>
 <title>Taco Cloud</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <h1>Welcome to...</h1>
 <img th:src="@{/images/TacoCloud.png}"/>
 </body>
</html>

Output

Whitelable error page

localhost:8080/home.html show home.html

Youcef LAIDANI · Answer 1 · 2019-06-22T06:32:06.320

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You have to change the location of your home page to be in the static folder :

resources/static/home.html
          ^^^^^^

instead of

resources/templates/home.html

and specify the extension in your controller :

return "home.html";
            ^^^^^

else you have to create a view resolver to avoid using extensions and to specify the other locations of your pages take a look at Configure ViewResolver with Spring Boot and annotations gives No mapping found for HTTP request with URI error

edited Jun 22 '19 at 06:32

answered Jun 22 '19 at 06:27

Youcef LAIDANI

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It did not work. I did all as you suggested. I have edited my question. But localhost:8080/home.html is working. But localhost:8080 should show home.html @YCF_L – Aman Jun 22 '19 at 06:37
try removing the .html extention in your return statement in the controller class – m-2127 Jun 22 '19 at 06:39
I did removed .html extension but it did not work. @m-2127 – Aman Jun 22 '19 at 06:43
@Aman it works very file with me, are you sure you followed the correct steps? – Youcef LAIDANI Jun 22 '19 at 06:55
localhost:8080/home.html is showing home.html @YCF_L – Aman Jun 22 '19 at 07:04
@michalk whad did you mean? – Youcef LAIDANI Jun 22 '19 at 07:33
I am asking him if he configured view resolver, because if not, his endpoint will return String "home.html" - exactly what he wrote several comments above. – Michał Krzywański Jun 22 '19 at 07:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '19 at 06:43

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You can try this.

@GetMapping("/")
    public String home()
    {
        return "templates/home.html";
    }

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answered Jun 22 '19 at 06:43

Bipil Raut

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Add your file location "static/home.html" – Bipil Raut Jun 22 '19 at 06:52
It is in my question @BipilRaut – Aman Jun 22 '19 at 06:53
Do you have extend @Configuration public class MvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter{} – Bipil Raut Jun 22 '19 at 07:01
No. I have not @BipilRaut – Aman Jun 22 '19 at 07:02
I seen your project in pom.xml file have any error , could you please clean install your pom file – Bipil Raut Jun 22 '19 at 07:02
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/195390/discussion-between-bipil-raut-and-aman). – Bipil Raut Jun 22 '19 at 07:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 22 '19 at 10:06

Below are few different ways you can place html files in your project.(Note it is from highest to lowest precedence) src/main/resources/resources/home.html src/main/resources/static/home.html src/main/resources/public/home.html

Go through this to get an idea about spring mvc project structure

Spring does not show home.html

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