Spring boot: Unable to start embedded Tomcat servlet container

Question

I'm new to Spring Boot and having with error while running my application. I'm following a tutorial and I believe I'm having proper parent and dependencies with POM, please help me

main class:

package com.boot;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

/**
 * Hello world!
 *
 */

@SpringBootApplication
public class App 
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, "hello");
    }
}

error is:

   org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedServletContainerException: Unable to start embedded Tomcat servlet container
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.start(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.java:165) ~[spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.startEmbeddedServletContainer(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:293) ~[spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.finishRefresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:141) ~[spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:541) ~[spring-context-4.2.4.RELEASE.jar:4.2.4.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:118) ~[spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:764) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.doRun(SpringApplication.java:357) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:305) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1124) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1113) [spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        at com.boot.App.main(App.java:18) [classes/:na]Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Tomcat connector in failed state
        at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.tomcat.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.start(TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer.java:159) ~[spring-boot-1.3.1.RELEASE.jar:1.3.1.RELEASE]
        ... 10 common frames omitted

POM :

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>das-boot</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.1.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
  <name>das-boot</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
  <dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
  </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

Solution 1

Try to change the port number in application.yaml (or application.properties) to something else.

Solution 2

You need to add the tomcat dependency in your pom

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
</dependency>

Solution 3

If you are running on a linux environment, basically your app does not have rights for the default port.

Try 8181 by giving the following option on VM.

-Dserver.port=8181

Solution 4

In my condition when I got an exception " Unable to start embedded Tomcat servlet container",

I opened the debug mode of spring boot by adding debug=true in the application.properties,

and then rerun the code ,and it told me that java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.ServletContext.getVirtualServerName()Ljava/lang/String

Thus, we know that probably I'm using a servlet API of lower version, and it conflicts with spring boot version.

I went to my pom.xml, and found one of my dependencies is using servlet2.5, and I excluded it.

Now it works. Hope it helps.

Solution 5

For me, I just had to put a -X flag with mvn. Look at the debug log; there was an issue with Spring while locating the .properties file.

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Comments

[amar]

I can't find this directory which IDE are you referring to? However when I set this port programatically it's working although I have to change the port on every run .. please suggest how to fix this. System.getProperties().put( "server.port", 130 );

[Aziz]

Check this out: github.com/khoubyari/spring-boot-rest-example/blob/master/sr‌​c/…

[Josiah DeWitt]

..although my application did not have this configuration file. The TCP port conflict was the problem, so this post was still very helpful. The key errors were: Failed to start end point associated with ProtocolHandler and java.net.BindException: Address already in use

[Pablo Pazos]

I have this dependency, still getting the exception org.springframework.boot.web.server.WebServerException: Unable to start embedded Tomcat