The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists

Question

web.xml

Answer 1

Was following one of training with Spring webmvc 4.2.3, while I'm using Spring webmvc 5.2.3 they suggested to create a form

<form:form modelAttribute="aNewAccount" method="get" action="/accountCreated">

that was causing the "disclose" error.

Altered as below to make it work. Looks like method above was the culprit.

<form:form modelAttribute="aNewAccount" action="accountCreated.html">

in fact, exploring further, method="post" in form annotation would work if properly declared:

@RequestMapping(value="/accountCreated", method=RequestMethod.POST)

Answer 2

I was running the project through Intellij and this got this error after I stopped the running server and restarted it. Killing all the java processes and restarting the app helped.

Answer 3

I had this problem in InteliJ. I went to: Edit -> Configuration -> Deployment -> EditArtifact:

Then there where yellow problems, I just clicked on fix two times and it works. I hope this will help someone.

Answer 4

I had missing application context in the Tomcat Run\Debug configuration:

Adding it, solved the problem and I got the right response instead of "The origin server did not find..."

Answer 5

the problem is in url pattern of servlet-mapping.

 <url-pattern>/DispatcherServlet</url-pattern>

let's say our controller is

@Controller
public class HomeController {
    @RequestMapping("/home")
    public String home(){
        return "home";
    }
}

when we hit some URL on our browser. the dispatcher servlet will try to map this url.

the url pattern of our serlvet currently is /Dispatcher which means resources are served from {contextpath}/Dispatcher

but when we request http://localhost:8080/home we are actually asking resources from / which is not available. so either we need to say dispatcher servlet to serve from / by doing

<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>

our make it serve from /Dispatcher by doing /Dispatcher/*

E.g

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee 
http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" 
version="3.1">
  <display-name>springsecuritydemo</display-name>

  <servlet>
    <description></description>
    <display-name>offers</display-name>
    <servlet-name>offers</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>offers</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/Dispatcher/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

and request it with http://localhost:8080/Dispatcher/home or put just / to request like

http://localhost:8080/home

Answer 6

I had the same problem and spent about 6 hours to solve it. I didn't find that answer for exactly my situation so maybe it could be useful for somebody.

When I created project, I pointed GroupId in pom.xml as "myproject.myapp" but I didn't create first "prime" package with that name in the project, where would be other packages inside of this main package (like /src/main/app etc). When I created prime package "myproject.myapp" and moved other packages inside of it, the problem was solved.