Spring boot: Unable to start embedded Tomcat servlet container

Question

I\'m new to Spring Boot and having with error while running my application. I\'m following a tutorial and I believe I\'m having proper parent and dependencies with POM, plea

Answer 1

In my condition when I got an exception " Unable to start embedded Tomcat servlet container",

I opened the debug mode of spring boot by adding debug=true in the application.properties,

and then rerun the code ,and it told me that java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.ServletContext.getVirtualServerName()Ljava/lang/String

Thus, we know that probably I'm using a servlet API of lower version, and it conflicts with spring boot version.

I went to my pom.xml, and found one of my dependencies is using servlet2.5, and I excluded it.

Now it works. Hope it helps.