title: Spring boot downloading jsp file
body: <p>I am using spring boot simple application for displaying a JSP.
  However instead of rendering the JSP the page gets downloaded in the browser.
  Please suggest?</p>
  
  <p><strong>application.properties</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/tcadmin?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull
  spring.datasource.username=tcuser
  spring.datasource.password=tcuserpass
  spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
  server.port=9090
  spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class=org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.SpringSessionContext
  server.context-path=/internal
  spring.mvc.view.prefix:/
  spring.mvc.view.suffix:.jsp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have made the folder src/main/webapp and put printReciept.jsp in that.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Pom.xml</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;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"&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.a2b&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;A2BInternalModules&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
      &lt;name&gt;A2BInternalModules&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;Sitemap Generator for A2B&lt;/description&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;1.5.8.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;relativePath/&gt; &lt;!-- lookup parent from repository --&gt;
      &lt;/parent&gt;
  
      &lt;properties&gt;
          &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
          &lt;project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;
          &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&gt;
      &lt;/properties&gt;
  
      &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;!-- Tomcat Embed --&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.apache.tomcat.embed&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;tomcat-embed-jasper&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;required&lt;/scope&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jstl&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;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;mysql&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;mysql-connector-java&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;runtime&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;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.security&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-security-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;/plugin&gt;
          &lt;/plugins&gt;
      &lt;/build&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PrintRecieptController.java</p>
  
  <pre><code>@RequestMapping(value = "/PrinReciept", method = RequestMethod.GET)
      public String welcome(Model model) {
          model.addAttribute("message", "Hello World !!!");
          return "printReciept";
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>printReciept.jsp</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
      pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Insert title here&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  Print Receipt
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The controller is getting hit but instead of rendering the JSP it is downloading that page in browser.Please suggest.</p>