Spring MVC project retunrs 404 in Eclipse IDE

[Naveen N Kumar]

I have an issue in running a Spring MVC project on tomcat in eclipse IDE, when I launch the URL, I get 404. The same code is working perfectly fine when I create a war file and deploy from tomcat console.
Does anyone had this issue ? Any inputs would be greatly appreciated, I have been spending lot of time to test small change.

[Tim Nachreiner]

When you say "launch the url", are you doing a right click on your project, then Ran As, then Run on Server?  Sounds more like you are doing all that directly on the .jsp file.

[Naveen N Kumar]

@Tim
I was working on a maven project and when I clean and recompile the project and deploy on Tomcat  which is added Eclipse I get 404 error,

although same is working when I create a war and deploy from tomcat console.

If I don't clean the project, it works fine, wondering whats happening behind ??

[Tim Nachreiner]

First: Do you have the tomcat plugin in your pom.xml file?

Second: You need to remember that doing a Maven clean install does not start the tomcat server, that's why you are getting the 404 error.

You should launch your application by right-clicking, choosing Run-as, Maven build..., then enter tomcat7:run in the Goals text box (this assumes you have the tomcat7 plugin configured in your pom.xml file.

I'm assuming you are following an online tutorial.  Which one is it?

[Naveen N Kumar]

@Tim

I don't have tomcat plugin in POM.xml. I would give a try with plugin.  I am following JavaBrains tutorials on YouTube and Spring/Hibernate reference documents.

Thanks for your reply

[Mayank Kumar Sharma]

@Naveen

First. Please check location of web pages, are they placed in webcontent folder or not.

Second, also check the path of index page. Is is correct or not


I think there is no need of tomcat plugin in pom.xml


we can add apache tomcat from add server option in IDE.


You may need to add servlet dependency ....