Spring boot could not resolve placeholder in string

Question

I am running spring-boot on an embedded tomcat server through maven with mvn clean install spring-boot:run. But every time I run it I get this error:

Answer 1

Here I have simplest solution that worked in my case.

Whether it be from Java command prompt, or VM options from IDE such as eclipse or IntelliJ, try supplying the following:

-Dspring.profiles.active=

This is alternative to modifying/touching the pom file mentioned above.