Getting 404 on anything but localhost

[wytten]

Strange behavior from spring boot app when run as a windows service created by cygrunsrv.
URL that uses 'localhost' works, but these other supposedly equivalent variations all fail with a 404:
http://(hostname):8080/page.html
http://(hostip):8080/page.html
http://127.0.0.1:8080/page.html

When I run the app with 'java -jar ...' manually, all of these URL's work but when run as a service,
only the 'localhost' variation works. The definition of the service is nothing more than to run the same 'java -jar ...' command.

Perhaps this has nothing to do directly with spring-boot, if so my apologies.

[wilkinsona]

Very strange. Quick sanity check: is the 404 definitely coming from your Boot app?

[wytten]

Yes, it looks like this:

Whitelabel Error Page

This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.

Wed Sep 10 14:43:46 CDT 2014
There was an unexpected error (type=Not Found, status=404).

[wytten]

I just discovered that it seems to be an issue with the current working directory, because if I start the app manually from some arbitrary directory and provide the absolute path to the jar, the behavior is the same as if started by cygrunsrv. Previously when starting it manually I was running the app from the project source directory, either with 'mvn spring-boot:run' or 'java -jar target/...'

[wilkinsona]

It sounds like page.html may be in the wrong place, or you've configured your app to access it via the filesystem rather than the classpath. Using Boot's default static resource handling and putting it in src/main/resources/static should be sufficient.

What, if any, custom configuration do you have? Can you share some more details about your app?

[wytten]

Moving the html from src/main/webapp to src/main/resources/static fixed the problem, thanks!

[wramirez007]

Hello, also I have the same problem as solved?

[bclozel]

@wramirez2401 Please don't cross-post.

Could you ask your question on StackOverflow? Commenting on a closed, and probably unrelated issue won't really help you here.

Thanks!