title: Whitelabel Error Page when trying to load index.jsp
body: <p>I am trying to open a simple index.jsp page which contains a form, but I'm getting this, and I can't figure out why. Project is built using Spring Initializr
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f8wAB.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f8wAB.png" alt="" /></a></p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlrFO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TlrFO.png" alt="file structure" /></a>
  This is what the file structure looks like</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXCAx.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HXCAx.png" alt="The application.properties file" /></a></p>
  <p>This is the pom.xml page, I've looked at some questions regarding a similar issue and some suggest commenting out some scopes, but I tried that with no effect</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;
  &lt;project xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&quot; 
  xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
       xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd&quot;&gt;
  &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&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;2.6.6&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;relativePath/&gt; &lt;!-- lookup parent from repository --&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;com.booksmanagement&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;Books&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
  &lt;name&gt;Books&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;description&gt;Books&lt;/description&gt;
  &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&gt;
  &lt;/properties&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-devtools&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;optional&gt;true&lt;/optional&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;org.projectlombok&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;lombok&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;optional&gt;true&lt;/optional&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &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;
      &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;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
  &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
  &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
          &lt;plugin&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;configuration&gt;
                  &lt;excludes&gt;
                      &lt;exclude&gt;
                          &lt;groupId&gt;org.projectlombok&lt;/groupId&gt;
                          &lt;artifactId&gt;lombok&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;/exclude&gt;
                  &lt;/excludes&gt;
              &lt;/configuration&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
  &lt;/build&gt;
  </code></pre>