Cannot start application: grails 3 + tomcat 8

Question

I'm trying to deploy and run my app on tomcat8, deployment seems ok, but when I'm accessing app:

HTTP Status 404 - /app/

type Status report

message /app/

description The requested resource is not available.

Apache Tomcat/8.0.14 (Debian)

Catalina.out:

INFO: Deployment of web application archive /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/app.war has finished in 11,475 ms
..
INFO: Server startup in 14676 ms

Please suggest, how to debug such behavior

Answer 1

Modify the spring-boot-starter-tomcat dependency to be provided and comment out groovy-ant dependency.

Please check this out.