Troubleshooting

Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]

Problem

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]

Solution

Execute the grails upgrade command in order to generate the files nece

$ grails upgrade

See the following stackoverflow article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24243027/grails-spring-security-sample-application-not-working