How can I serve static html from spring boot?

Question

I ran the spring-boot-sample-web-static project from here, made this alteration to the pom

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Answer 1

Static files should be served from resources, not from controller.

Spring Boot will automatically add static web resources located within any of the following directories:

/META-INF/resources/  
/resources/  
/static/  
/public/

refs:
https://spring.io/blog/2013/12/19/serving-static-web-content-with-spring-boot
https://spring.io/guides/gs/serving-web-content/