STS 2.8.1 Cannot "Open Home Page" for new Spring MVC app, get Status 404

[johncelia]

File - New - Spring Template Project - Spring MVC Project

project name: mvc1
top package: org.my.app1 click Finish

Drag new folder from Package Explorer, drop on vFabric tc Server

Start server, so far all is good

In Servers window, expand tcServer, right click the new app mvc1, "Open Home Page"

It opens this URL:

http://localhost:8080/mvc1/

and always shows:

HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource () is not available.

VMware vFabric tc Runtime 2.6.1.RELEASE/7.0.20.B.RELEASE

NOTE: This used to work in STS 271 and earlier, and broke with STS 272 to present

One cannot proceed to write an app if the "Hello world" page cannot display.

PS if I open http://localhost:8080/
it opens properly the tc Server home page.

[schmand]

Hey John,

same problem here. Something is wrong with the controller- or requestmapping: In my case it does not even pass through the HomeController (no System.out):

@Controller
public class HomeController {
	
	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HomeController.class);
	
	/**
	 * Simply selects the home view to render by returning its name.
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public String home(Locale locale, Model model) {
		/*logger.info("Welcome home! the client locale is "+ locale.toString());
		
		Date date = new Date();
		DateFormat dateFormat = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.LONG, DateFormat.LONG, locale);
		
		String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(date);
		
		model.addAttribute("serverTime", formattedDate );
		
		return "home";*/
		
		System.out.println("HomeController: Passing through...");
        return "WEB-INF/views/home.jsp";
	}
}

Console output when starting the server:

Jan 23, 2012 7:23:37 PM com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder <init>
Information: tc Runtime property decoder using memory-based key
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:38 PM com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder <init>
Information: tcServer Runtime property decoder has been initialized in 285 ms
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:38 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
Information: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:38 PM com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener init
Information: Started up JMX registry on 127.0.0.1:6969 in 79 ms
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:38 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
Information: Initialization processed in 1042 ms
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
Information: Starting service Catalina
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
Information: Starting Servlet Engine: VMware vFabric tc Runtime 2.6.1.RELEASE/7.0.20.B.RELEASE
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:39 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
Information: Deploying configuration descriptor gazetteer.xml from C:\Program Files\SpringSource Tool Suite\vfabric-tc-server-developer-2.6.1.RELEASE\spring-insight-instance\conf\Catalina\localhost
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:39 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin
Warnung: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:DAIGazetteer' did not find a matching property.
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:39 PM com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.ltw.TomcatWeavingInsightClassLoader start
Information: Context [localhost|gazetteer] will not be woven
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
Information: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
INFO : org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
INFO : org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext - Refreshing Root WebApplicationContext: startup date [Mon Jan 23 19:23:39 CET 2012]; root of context hierarchy
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml]
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@6a757925: defining beans []; root of factory hierarchy
INFO : org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Root WebApplicationContext: initialization completed in 264 ms
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
Information: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'appServlet'
INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'appServlet': initialization started
INFO : org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext - Refreshing WebApplicationContext for namespace 'appServlet-servlet': startup date [Mon Jan 23 19:23:40 CET 2012]; parent: Root WebApplicationContext
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml]
INFO : org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Named' annotation found and supported for component scanning
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor - JSR-330 'javax.inject.Inject' annotation found and supported for autowiring
INFO : org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@419e8639: defining beans [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping#0,org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.MappedInterceptor#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter,org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping#0,org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver#0,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalConfigurationAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor,org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCommonAnnotationProcessor]; parent: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@6a757925
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:41 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
Information: Deploying configuration descriptor insight.xml from C:\Program Files\SpringSource Tool Suite\vfabric-tc-server-developer-2.6.1.RELEASE\spring-insight-instance\conf\Catalina\localhost
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:41 PM com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.ltw.TomcatWeavingInsightClassLoader start
Information: Context [localhost|insight] will not be woven
INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping - Mapped URL path [/resources/**] onto handler 'org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler#0'
INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'appServlet': initialization completed in 801 ms
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
Information: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:55 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
Information: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet'
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
Information: Deploying web application directory manager
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:58 PM com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.ltw.TomcatWeavingInsightClassLoader start
Information: Context [localhost|manager] will not be woven
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
Information: Deploying web application directory ROOT
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:58 PM com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.ltw.TomcatWeavingInsightClassLoader start
Information: Context [localhost|ROOT] will not be woven
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:58 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
Information: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 23, 2012 7:23:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
Information: Server startup in 19597 ms
WARN : org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/gazetteer/] in DispatcherServlet with name 'appServlet'

The last line is caused by trying to open "http://localhost:8080/gazetteer/"...

root-context.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"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">
	
	<!-- Root Context: defines shared resources visible to all other web components -->
		
</beans>

servlet-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

	<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing infrastructure -->
	
	<!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
	<annotation-driven />

	<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
	<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

	<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
	<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
		<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
		<beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
	</beans:bean>
	
	<context:component-scan base-package="org.dainst.gazetteer" />
	
	
	
</beans:beans>

Ideas anyone?

[Llathos]

All I can add is that I'm brand new to Spring development and STS.

I have the same problem, and I'm (perhaps naively) befuddled as to why I've got so many issues with this tool (version 2.8.1) right out the gate...

Hello World basically is broken. JSTL path was wrong and now I'm getting a 404 cannot load resource().

Really?

[jhalbert]

I have this same issue. Any resolution?

[Jason Konicki]

You need to do a clean of the project (mvc1) and then deploy to tc Server instance.

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Usually doing a clean build of the project and then deploy it to tc server solves the problem.

HTH,
Martin

[jhalbert]

going through and performing the clean straightened things out...

btw, as someone new to all this, what's the best way to pick up STS?
seems i generally find things by wandering around so to speak.
it there a better way to start?

thanks again!

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Take a look here:
http://forum.springsource.org/showth...For-Beginners)

And maybe wach the webinar here:
http://www.springsource.com/webinar/...rce-tool-suite

HTH,
Martin

[schmand]

Ah short update: I did not find a real solution, just reinstalled everything (a second time) and suddenly it worked. :/