Spring Boot: Cannot access REST Controller on localhost (404)

Question

I am trying to adapt the REST Controller example on the Spring Boot website. Unfortunately I\'ve got the following error when I am trying to access the localhost:8080/

Answer 1

I had this issue and what you need to do is fix your packages. If you downloaded this project from http://start.spring.io/ then you have your main class in some package. For example if the package for the main class is: "com.example" then and your controller must be in package: "com.example.controller". Hope this helps.