Thymeleaf not redirecting to index.html

Question

I have added Thymeleaf to my Spring Boot project.

I have created a HTML file in /resources/templates/index.html

I have added a method to my @RestController:

@RequestMapping("/")
public String index(Model model, OAuth2Authentication authentication) {
    // irreveland code here
    return "index";
}

It seems that this method kinda works, but instead of redirecting me to http://localhost:8080/templates/index.html I have a white page with a word "index" on it (no html in sources, just the word index )

I have tried to put the index.html page to /resources/static and /resources for test purposes - no effort.

What could go wrong here?

Answer 1

You annotated your controller with @RestController , which means that all return values are treated as response bodies ( @ResponseBody ). That means that your string "index" is treated as such, and not as a view.

In order to use the MVC approach, where "index" refers to a view called index.html , you should use the @Controller annotation.