Spring Boot: Unable to start EmbeddedWebApplicationContext due to missing EmbeddedServletContainerFactory bean

Question

I am totally new to Spring and started to do the official guides from this site: https://spring.io/guides

I\'d like to do this guide: https://spring.io/guides/gs/sch

Answer 1

The error suggests that the application you are trying to run cannot instantiate an instance of apache tomcat. Make sure you are running the application with tomcat.

if after checking all your dependencies you experience the same problem, try to add the following in your configuration class

@Bean
public EmbeddedServletContainerFactory servletContainer() {
    TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory factory = 
                  new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory();
    return factory;
 }

If you are using an external instance of tomcat (especially for intellij), the problem could be that the IDE is trying to start the embedded tomcat. In this case, remove the following from your pom.xml then configure the external tomcat using the 'Edit Configurations' wizard.

     org.springframework.boot
     spring-boot-starter-tomcat
     provided