ApplicationContextException Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean

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I have written a spring batch application using Spring boot  When I am trying to run that application using command line and classpath on my local system it is running fine  However  when I tried to run it on linux server it is giving me following exception  Unable to start web server  nested exception is org springframework context ApplicationContextException   Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean    Below is the way I am running it   java -cp jarFileName jar  lib   -Dlogging level org springframework DEBUG -Dspring profiles active dev -Dspring batch job names abcBatchJob com aa bb StartSpringBatch  gt  somelogs log

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SpringBootApplication  checked  didn t work  spring-boot-starter-web in Pom file  checked  didn t work  Switch from IntelliJ CE to IntelliJ Ultimate  problem solved

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In case you re using IntelliJ and this is happening to you  like it did to my noob-self   ensure the Run setting has Spring Boot Application and NOT plain Application

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My solution had to do with a bad dependency  I had    lt dependency gt     lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt     lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-web lt  artifactId gt     lt exclusions gt       lt exclusion gt         lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt         lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-tomcat lt  artifactId gt       lt  exclusion gt     lt  exclusions gt   lt  dependency gt    In my pom and I had to comment out the exclusion to get it working  It must look for this tomcat package for some reason

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I had this problem during migration to Spring Boot  I ve found a advice to remove dependencies and it helped  So  I removed dependency for jsp-api Project had  Also   servlet-api dependency has to be removed as well   compileOnly group   javax servlet jsp   name   jsp-api   version   2 2

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I encountered this problem when attempint to run my web application as a fat jar rather than from within my IDE  IntelliJ    This is what worked for me  Simply adding a default profile to the application properties file   spring profiles active default   You don t have to use default if you have already set up other specific profiles  dev test prod   But if you haven t this is necessary to run the application as a fat jar

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Annotate class public static void main with  for example   SpringBootApplication

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In my case  I was using an TOMCAT 8 and updating to TOMCAT 9 fixed it     lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt     lt groupId gt spring-boot-app lt  groupId gt     lt artifactId gt spring-boot-app lt  artifactId gt     lt version gt 0 0 1-SNAPSHOT lt  version gt     lt packaging gt war lt  packaging gt      lt parent gt       lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-parent lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 2 3 1 RELEASE lt  version gt       lt relativePath  gt   lt  -- lookup parent from repository -- gt     lt  parent gt      lt dependencies gt       lt dependency gt         lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt         lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-web lt  artifactId gt       lt  dependency gt       lt dependency gt         lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt         lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-data-jpa lt  artifactId gt       lt  dependency gt       lt dependency gt         lt groupId gt com h2database lt  groupId gt         lt artifactId gt h2 lt  artifactId gt       lt  dependency gt       lt dependency gt         lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt         lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-test lt  artifactId gt       lt  dependency gt     lt  dependencies gt      lt build gt       lt plugins gt         lt plugin gt           lt groupId gt org codehaus mojo lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt exec-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 1 2 1 lt  version gt           lt executions gt             lt execution gt               lt goals gt                 lt goal gt java lt  goal gt               lt  goals gt             lt  execution gt           lt  executions gt           lt configuration gt             lt mainClass gt com example Application lt  mainClass gt           lt  configuration gt         lt  plugin gt       lt  plugins gt     lt  build gt      lt properties gt       lt tomcat version gt 9 0 37 lt  tomcat version gt     lt  properties gt   Related issues   https   github com spring-projects spring-boot issues q missing ServletWebServerFactory bean https   github com spring-projects spring-boot issues 22013 - Spring Boot app as a module https   github com spring-projects spring-boot issues 19141 - Application fails to load when main class extends a base class annotated with  SpringBootApplication when spring-boot-starter-web is included as a dependency

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My problem was the same as that in the original question  only that I was running via Eclipse and not cmd  Tried all the solutions listed  but didn t work  The final working solution for me  however  was while running via cmd  or can be run similarly via Eclipse   Used a modified command appended with spring config from cmd  start java -Xms512m -Xmx1024m  lt and the usual parameters as needed  like PrintGC etc gt  -Dspring config location  lt propertiesfiles gt  -jar  lt jar gt   I guess my issue was the spring configurations not being loaded correctly

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As for me  I removed the provided scope in tomcat dependency    lt dependency gt     lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt     lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-tomcat lt  artifactId gt     lt scope gt provided lt  scope gt     remove this scope  lt  dependency gt

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You probably use this in your project      lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-webflux lt  artifactId gt   lt  dependency gt    in which case you ll have to also add      lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-web lt  artifactId gt   lt  dependency gt    and the magic happens     PS  that s because Spring will use by default web-MVC instead of web-flux when both are available

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Case 1    SpringBootApplication annotation missing in your spring boot starter class   Case 2   For non web application  disable web application type in properties file   In application properties   spring main web-application-type none   If you use application yml then add     spring      main        web-application-type  none   For web applications  extends  SpringBootServletInitializer  in main class    SpringBootApplication public class YourAppliationName extends SpringBootServletInitializer      public static void main String   args            SpringApplication run YourAppliationName class  args             Case 3   If you use spring-boot-starter-webflux then also add spring-boot-starter-web as dependency

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I did right click on my project in IntelliJ IDEA then Maven - gt  Reload project  problem solved

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I was trying to create a web application with spring boot and I got the same error    After inspecting I found that I was missing a dependency  So  be sure to add following dependency to your pom xml file         lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-web lt  artifactId gt       lt  dependency gt

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Adding following bean worked for me       Bean     public ServletWebServerFactory servletWebServerFactory             return new TomcatServletWebServerFactory           I was running non web spring application using SpringApplication run MyApplication class  args   without  SpringBootApplication annotation

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Similar to the solution of making sure org springframework boot spring-boot-starter-tomcat was installed  I was missing org eclipse jetty jetty-server from my build gradle org springframework boot spring-boot-starter-web needs a server be it Tomcat  Jetty or something else - it will compile but not run without one

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In my case  the problem was I didn t had a Tomcat server separately installed in my eclipse  I assumed my Springboot will start the server automatically within itself   Since my main class extends SpringBootServletInitializer and override configure method  I definitely need a Tomcat server installed in my IDE   To install  first download Apachce Tomcat  version 9 in my case  and create server using Servers tab   After installation  run the main class on server   Run As - gt  Run on Server

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Apart from the possible solutions in other answers  it is also possible that somehow Maven dependency corruption has occurred on your machine  I was facing the same error on trying to run my  Web  Spring boot application  and it got resolved by running the following - mvn dependency purge-local-repository -DreResolve true  followed by mvn package  I came onto this solution looking into another issue where Eclipse wouldn t let me run the main application class from the IDE  due to a different error  similar to one on this SO thread - gt  The type org springframework context ConfigurableApplicationContext cannot be resolved  It is indirectly referenced from required  class files

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Upgrading spring-boot-starter-parent in pom xml to the latest version fixed it for me

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Probably you missing  SpringBootApplication in your spring boot starter class    SpringBootApplication public class LoginSecurityAppApplication        public static void main String   args            SpringApplication run LoginSecurityAppApplication class  args

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In my case the issue resolved on commenting the tomcat dependencies exclusion from spring-boot-starte-web       lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-web lt  artifactId gt           lt  --  lt exclusions gt               lt exclusion gt                   lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-tomcat lt  artifactId gt               lt  exclusion gt           lt  exclusions gt  -- gt       lt  dependency gt

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The solution is   I explicitly set the below property to none in application yml file   spring    main      web-application-type  none

[spring] ApplicationContextException: Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean

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