JSP file is not rendering hen my controller gets triggered

[kaushiksarangi26]

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I am working on a spring boot web app, where I am trying to load a simple JSP file to the browser with tom cat(embedded), through my controller , I am able to print the message Inside home to the console, when I refresh my application but it never renders JSP file. Please help, I am adding link to my code below:https://github.com/kaushiksarangi26/SpringWebApp

@Controller
public class HomeController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String home(){
        System.out.println("Inside home");
        return "index.jsp";
    }
}

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[jgschmitz]

Spring Boot already knows to look for .jsp — so change your controller to:

@RequestMapping("/")
public String home() {
    System.out.println("Inside home");
    return "index";  // not "index.jsp"
}

2. Put JSP files under /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp/
   Spring Boot with embedded Tomcat only loads JSPs from this directory.

So your structure should look like:

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src
└── main
    └── webapp
        └── WEB-INF
            └── jsp
                └── index.jsp

3. application.properties setup
   Make sure to tell Spring where to find JSP files:

spring.mvc.view.prefix=/WEB-INF/jsp/
spring.mvc.view.suffix=.jsp

4. Use spring-boot-starter-tomcat + javax.servlet.jsp dependencies