Unable to start spring boot server

Question

I am new to spring boot and when I try to start my server , I get the following Exception. I understand that this has something to do with dependency conflict, but still una

Answer 1

Excluding logback-classic from spring-boot-starter-web and spring-boot-starter-actuator worked for me

compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.1.10.RELEASE") {
    exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
    exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-logging"
    exclude module: "logback-classic"
}
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator:1.1.10.RELEASE") {
    exclude module: "logback-classic"
}