diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b102b5cd30..3bfa182d72 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>parent-modules</name>
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
-    	
+
     <modules>
         <module>lombok-custom</module>
     </modules>
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
 				<version>${maven-war-plugin.version}</version>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>
-		
+
 		<extensions>
 			<extension>
 				<groupId>com.vackosar.gitflowincrementalbuilder</groupId>
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
                 <module>checker-plugin</module>
                 <module>core-groovy</module>
                 <!-- <module>core-java-10</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 10. Fixing in BAEL-10841 -->
-                <!-- <module>core-java-11</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 11. Fixing in BAEL-10841 --> 
+                <!-- <module>core-java-11</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 11. Fixing in BAEL-10841 -->
                 <!-- <module>core-java-12</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 12. Fixing in BAEL-10841 -->
                 <module>core-java-8</module>
                 <module>core-java-8-2</module>
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
                 <module>core-scala</module>
                 <module>couchbase</module>
                 <module>custom-pmd</module>
-                                
+
                 <module>dagger</module>
                 <module>data-structures</module>
                 <module>ddd</module>
@@ -412,13 +412,13 @@
                 <module>disruptor</module>
                 <module>dozer</module>
                 <module>drools</module>
-                <module>dubbo</module>             
-                
+                <module>dubbo</module>
+
                 <module>ethereum</module>
-                
+
                 <module>feign</module>
                 <module>flyway-cdi-extension</module>
-                
+
                 <module>geotools</module>
                 <module>google-cloud</module>
                 <module>google-web-toolkit</module>
@@ -432,12 +432,12 @@
                 <module>guava-modules</module>
                 <!-- <module>guest</module> --> <!-- not to be built as its for guest articles  -->
                 <module>guice</module>
-                
+
                 <module>hazelcast</module>
                 <module>helidon</module>
                 <module>httpclient</module>
                 <module>hystrix</module>
-                
+
                 <module>image-processing</module>
                 <module>immutables</module>
 
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
 
                 <!-- <module>kotlin-js</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>kotlin-libraries</module>
-                
+
                 <!-- <module>lagom</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>libraries</module>
                 <module>libraries-2</module>
@@ -512,8 +512,8 @@
                 <!-- <module>muleesb</module> --> <!-- Fixing in BAEL-10878 -->
                 <module>mustache</module>
                 <module>mybatis</module>
-                
-                
+
+
                 <module>optaplanner</module>
                 <module>orika</module>
                 <module>osgi</module>
@@ -523,9 +523,9 @@
                 <module>performance-tests</module>
                 <!-- <module>play-framework</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>protobuffer</module>
-                
+
                 <module>persistence-modules</module>
-                                
+
                 <module>rabbitmq</module>
                 <!-- <module>raml</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>ratpack</module>
@@ -537,17 +537,17 @@
                 <module>rule-engines</module>
 				<module>rsocket</module>
                 <module>rxjava</module>
-                <module>rxjava-2</module> 
+                <module>rxjava-2</module>
 			    <module>software-security/sql-injection-samples</module>
-				
+
 				<module>tensorflow-java</module>
 				<module>spring-boot-flowable</module>
 				<module>spring-security-kerberos</module>
-					
+
 			</modules>
 
 		</profile>
-		
+
         <profile>
             <id>default-second</id>
             <build>
@@ -581,12 +581,12 @@
                 <module>parent-spring-5</module>
                 <module>parent-java</module>
                 <module>parent-kotlin</module>
-                
+
                 <module>saas</module>
                 <module>spark-java</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-4</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-5</module>
                 <module>spring-5-webflux</module>
                 <module>spring-5-data-reactive</module>
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@
                 <module>spring-5-reactive-security</module>
                 <module>spring-5-security</module>
                 <module>spring-5-security-oauth</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-activiti</module>
                 <module>spring-akka</module>
                 <module>spring-all</module>
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
                 <module>spring-apache-camel</module>
                 <module>spring-batch</module>
                 <module>spring-bom</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-boot</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-admin</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-angular</module>
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@
                 <module>spring-boot-camel</module>
                 <!-- <module>spring-boot-cli</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>spring-boot-client</module>
+				<module>spring-boot-configuration</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-crud</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-ctx-fluent</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-custom-starter</module>
@@ -635,41 +636,41 @@
                 <module>spring-boot-testing</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-vue</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-libraries</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-cloud</module>
                 <module>spring-cloud-bus</module>
                 <!-- <module>spring-cloud-cli</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>spring-cloud-data-flow</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-core</module>
                 <module>spring-cucumber</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-data-rest</module>
                 <module>spring-data-rest-querydsl</module>
                 <module>spring-dispatcher-servlet</module>
                 <module>spring-drools</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-ehcache</module>
                 <module>spring-ejb</module>
                 <module>spring-exceptions</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-freemarker</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-groovy</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-integration</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-jenkins-pipeline</module>
                 <module>spring-jersey</module>
                 <module>spring-jinq</module>
                 <module>spring-jms</module>
                 <module>spring-jooq</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-kafka</module>
                 <module>spring-katharsis</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-ldap</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-mobile</module>
                 <module>spring-mockito</module>
                 <module>spring-mvc-forms-jsp</module>
@@ -681,12 +682,12 @@
                 <module>spring-mvc-velocity</module>
                 <module>spring-mvc-webflow</module>
                 <module>spring-mvc-xml</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-protobuf</module>
                 <!-- <module>spring-security-cors</module> -->  <!-- PMD violation -->
-                
+
                 <module>spring-quartz</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-reactive-kotlin</module>
                 <module>spring-reactor</module>
                 <module>spring-remoting</module>
@@ -702,9 +703,9 @@
                 <module>spring-security-acl</module>
                 <module>spring-security-angular/server</module>
                 <module>spring-security-cache-control</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-security-client</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-security-core</module>
                 <module>spring-security-mvc-boot</module>
                 <module>spring-security-mvc-custom</module>
@@ -732,50 +733,50 @@
                 <module>spring-state-machine</module>
                 <module>spring-static-resources</module>
                 <module>spring-swagger-codegen</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-thymeleaf</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-userservice</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-vault</module>
                 <module>spring-vertx</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-webflux-amqp</module> <!-- long -->
-                
+
                 <module>spring-zuul</module>
-                
+
                 <module>static-analysis</module>
                 <module>stripe</module>
                 <module>structurizr</module>
                 <module>struts-2</module>
-                
+
                 <module>testing-modules</module>
-                                
+
                 <module>twilio</module>
                 <module>Twitter4J</module>
-                
+
                 <module>undertow</module>
-                
+
                 <module>vavr</module>
                 <module>vertx</module>
                 <module>vertx-and-rxjava</module>
                 <module>video-tutorials</module>
                 <module>vraptor</module>
-                
+
                 <module>wicket</module>
-                
+
                 <module>xml</module>
                 <module>xmlunit-2</module>
                 <module>xstream</module>
-				
+
 				<module>tensorflow-java</module>
 				<module>spring-boot-flowable</module>
 				<module>spring-security-kerberos</module>
-                
+
             </modules>
 
         </profile>
-        
+
 		<profile>
 			<id>spring-context</id>
 			<build>
@@ -817,6 +818,7 @@
 				<module>spring-boot-bootstrap</module>
 				<module>spring-boot-camel</module>
 				<module>spring-boot-client</module>
+				<module>spring-boot-configuration</module>
 				<module>spring-boot-custom-starter</module>
 				<module>greeter-spring-boot-autoconfigure</module>
 				<module>greeter-spring-boot-sample-app</module>
@@ -913,7 +915,7 @@
 				<module>persistence-modules/spring-data-eclipselink</module>
 				<module>persistence-modules/spring-data-solr</module>
 				<module>persistence-modules/spring-hibernate-5</module>
-				
+
 				<module>spring-boot-flowable</module>
 				<module>spring-security-kerberos</module>
 			</modules>
@@ -953,7 +955,7 @@
                 <module>parent-spring-5</module>
                 <module>parent-java</module>
                 <module>parent-kotlin</module>
-                        
+
                 <module>core-java-concurrency-advanced</module> <!-- very long running? -->
                 <module>core-kotlin</module> <!-- long running? -->
                 <module>core-kotlin-2</module>
@@ -967,12 +969,12 @@
                 <module>persistence-modules/hibernate5</module>
                 <module>persistence-modules/java-jpa</module>
                 <module>persistence-modules/java-mongodb</module>
-                <module>persistence-modules/jnosql</module>             
+                <module>persistence-modules/jnosql</module>
 
-                <module>vaadin</module>            
+                <module>vaadin</module>
             </modules>
         </profile>
-        
+
         <profile>
             <id>integration-lite-first</id>
 
@@ -1045,7 +1047,7 @@
                 <module>core-groovy</module>
                 <module>core-groovy-2</module>
                 <!-- <module>core-java-10</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 10. Fixing in BAEL-10841 -->
-                <!-- <module>core-java-11</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 11. Fixing in BAEL-10841 --> 
+                <!-- <module>core-java-11</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 11. Fixing in BAEL-10841 -->
                 <module>core-java-8</module>
                 <module>core-java-8-2</module>
                 <!--<module>core-java-9</module> --> <!-- We haven't upgraded to java 9. Fixing in BAEL-10841 -->
@@ -1068,7 +1070,7 @@
                 <module>core-scala</module>
                 <module>couchbase</module>
                 <module>custom-pmd</module>
-                                
+
                 <module>dagger</module>
                 <module>data-structures</module>
                 <module>ddd</module>
@@ -1076,13 +1078,13 @@
                 <module>disruptor</module>
                 <module>dozer</module>
                 <module>drools</module>
-                <module>dubbo</module>             
-                
+                <module>dubbo</module>
+
                 <module>ethereum</module>
-                
+
                 <module>feign</module>
                 <module>flyway-cdi-extension</module>
-                
+
                 <module>geotools</module>
                 <module>google-cloud</module>
                 <module>google-web-toolkit</module>
@@ -1096,12 +1098,12 @@
                 <module>guava-modules</module>
                 <!-- <module>guest</module> --> <!-- not to be built as its for guest articles  -->
                 <module>guice</module>
-                
+
                 <module>hazelcast</module>
                 <module>helidon</module>
                 <module>httpclient</module>
                 <module>hystrix</module>
-                
+
                 <module>image-processing</module>
                 <module>immutables</module>
 
@@ -1148,7 +1150,7 @@
 
                 <!-- <module>kotlin-js</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>kotlin-libraries</module>
-                
+
                 <!-- <module>lagom</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>libraries</module>
                 <module>libraries-data</module>
@@ -1174,8 +1176,8 @@
                 <!-- <module>muleesb</module> --> <!-- Fixing in BAEL-10878 -->
                 <module>mustache</module>
                 <module>mybatis</module>
-                
-                
+
+
                 <module>optaplanner</module>
                 <module>orika</module>
                 <module>osgi</module>
@@ -1185,9 +1187,9 @@
                 <module>performance-tests</module>
                 <!-- <module>play-framework</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>protobuffer</module>
-                
+
                 <module>persistence-modules</module>
-                               
+
                 <module>rabbitmq</module>
                 <!-- <module>raml</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>ratpack</module>
@@ -1199,8 +1201,8 @@
                 <module>rule-engines</module>
                 <module>rsocket</module>
                 <module>rxjava</module>
-                <module>rxjava-2</module>                                
-                                                 
+                <module>rxjava-2</module>
+
              </modules>
 
         </profile>
@@ -1234,12 +1236,12 @@
                 <module>parent-spring-5</module>
                 <module>parent-java</module>
                 <module>parent-kotlin</module>
-                
+
                 <module>saas</module>
                 <module>spark-java</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-4</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-5</module>
                 <module>spring-5-data-reactive</module>
                 <module>spring-5-mvc</module>
@@ -1249,7 +1251,7 @@
                 <module>spring-5-reactive-security</module>
                 <module>spring-5-security</module>
                 <module>spring-5-security-oauth</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-activiti</module>
                 <module>spring-akka</module>
                 <module>spring-all</module>
@@ -1259,7 +1261,7 @@
                 <module>spring-apache-camel</module>
                 <module>spring-batch</module>
                 <module>spring-bom</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-boot</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-admin</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-angular</module>
@@ -1269,6 +1271,7 @@
                 <module>spring-boot-camel</module>
                 <!-- <module>spring-boot-cli</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>spring-boot-client</module>
+                <module>spring-boot-configuration</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-crud</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-ctx-fluent</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-custom-starter</module>
@@ -1285,41 +1288,41 @@
                 <module>spring-boot-property-exp</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-security</module>
                 <module>spring-boot-vue</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-cloud</module>
                 <module>spring-cloud-bus</module>
                 <!-- <module>spring-cloud-cli</module> --> <!-- Not a maven project -->
                 <module>spring-cloud-data-flow</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-core</module>
                 <module>spring-cucumber</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-data-rest</module>
                 <module>spring-data-rest-querydsl</module>
                 <module>spring-dispatcher-servlet</module>
                 <module>spring-drools</module>
-                
-				<module>spring-ehcache</module>                
+
+				<module>spring-ehcache</module>
                 <module>spring-ejb</module>
                 <module>spring-exceptions</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-freemarker</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-groovy</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-integration</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-jenkins-pipeline</module>
                 <module>spring-jersey</module>
                 <module>spring-jinq</module>
                 <module>spring-jms</module>
                 <module>spring-jooq</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-kafka</module>
                 <module>spring-katharsis</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-ldap</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-mobile</module>
                 <module>spring-mockito</module>
                 <module>spring-mvc-forms-jsp</module>
@@ -1331,12 +1334,12 @@
                 <module>spring-mvc-velocity</module>
                 <module>spring-mvc-webflow</module>
                 <module>spring-mvc-xml</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-protobuf</module>
                 <!-- <module>spring-security-cors</module> -->  <!-- PMD violation -->
-                
+
                 <module>spring-quartz</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-reactive-kotlin</module>
                 <module>spring-reactor</module>
                 <module>spring-remoting</module>
@@ -1349,13 +1352,13 @@
                 <module>spring-rest-simple</module>
                 <module>spring-resttemplate</module>
                 <module>spring-roo</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-security-acl</module>
                 <module>spring-security-angular/server</module>
                 <module>spring-security-cache-control</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-security-client</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-security-core</module>
                 <module>spring-security-mvc-boot</module>
                 <module>spring-security-mvc-custom</module>
@@ -1382,42 +1385,42 @@
                 <module>spring-state-machine</module>
                 <module>spring-static-resources</module>
                 <module>spring-swagger-codegen</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-thymeleaf</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-userservice</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-vault</module>
                 <module>spring-vertx</module>
-                
+
                 <module>spring-webflux-amqp</module> <!-- long -->
-                
+
                 <module>spring-zuul</module>
-                
+
                 <module>static-analysis</module>
                 <module>stripe</module>
                 <module>structurizr</module>
                 <module>struts-2</module>
-                
+
                 <module>testing-modules</module>
-                                
+
                 <module>twilio</module>
                 <module>Twitter4J</module>
-                
+
                 <module>undertow</module>
-                
+
                 <module>vavr</module>
                 <module>vertx</module>
                 <module>vertx-and-rxjava</module>
                 <module>video-tutorials</module>
                 <module>vraptor</module>
-                
+
                 <module>wicket</module>
-                
+
                 <module>xml</module>
                 <module>xmlunit-2</module>
                 <module>xstream</module>
-                
+
             </modules>
 
         </profile>
@@ -1451,8 +1454,8 @@
                 <module>parent-spring-5</module>
                 <module>parent-java</module>
                 <module>parent-kotlin</module>
-                
-                <module>core-java</module>                
+
+                <module>core-java</module>
                 <module>core-java-concurrency-advanced</module> <!-- very long running? -->
                 <module>core-kotlin</module> <!-- long running? -->
                 <module>core-kotlin-2</module>
@@ -1465,9 +1468,9 @@
                 <module>persistence-modules/hibernate5</module>
                 <module>persistence-modules/java-jpa</module>
                 <module>persistence-modules/java-mongodb</module>
-                <module>persistence-modules/jnosql</module>             
+                <module>persistence-modules/jnosql</module>
 
-                <module>vaadin</module>            
+                <module>vaadin</module>
             </modules>
 
         </profile>
@@ -1493,15 +1496,15 @@
 		<gib.failOnMissingGitDir>false</gib.failOnMissingGitDir>
 		<gib.failOnError>false</gib.failOnError>
 		<gib.enabled>false</gib.enabled>
-        
+
 		<junit.version>4.12</junit.version>
 		<org.hamcrest.version>1.3</org.hamcrest.version>
 		<mockito.version>2.21.0</mockito.version>
-        
+
 		<!-- logging -->
 		<org.slf4j.version>1.7.21</org.slf4j.version>
 		<logback.version>1.1.7</logback.version>
-        
+
 		<!-- plugins -->
 		<maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.21.0</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
 		<maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.7.0</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/.gitignore b/spring-boot-configuration/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..153c9335eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-configuration/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+HELP.md
+/target/
+!.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
+
+### STS ###
+.apt_generated
+.classpath
+.factorypath
+.project
+.settings
+.springBeans
+.sts4-cache
+
+### IntelliJ IDEA ###
+.idea
+*.iws
+*.iml
+*.ipr
+
+### NetBeans ###
+/nbproject/private/
+/nbbuild/
+/dist/
+/nbdist/
+/.nb-gradle/
+/build/
+
+### VS Code ###
+.vscode/
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/README.MD b/spring-boot-configuration/README.MD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/pom.xml b/spring-boot-configuration/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ecef7bb02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-configuration/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<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">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+	<parent>
+		<artifactId>parent-boot-2</artifactId>
+		<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+		<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+		<relativePath>../parent-boot-2</relativePath>
+	</parent>
+
+	<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+	<artifactId>spring-boot-configuration</artifactId>
+	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<name>spring-boot-configuration</name>
+	<description>Demo project for Spring Boot configuration</description>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
+			<scope>test</scope>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springbootconfiguration/SpringBootConfigurationApplication.java b/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springbootconfiguration/SpringBootConfigurationApplication.java
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index 0000000000..b4f5681475
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/java/com/baeldung/springbootconfiguration/SpringBootConfigurationApplication.java
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package com.baeldung.springbootconfiguration;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class SpringBootConfigurationApplication {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		SpringApplication.run(SpringBootConfigurationApplication.class, args);
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/resources/application-tomcat.properties b/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/resources/application-tomcat.properties
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index 0000000000..d7c1ba9ac3
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+++ b/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/resources/application-tomcat.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# server configuration
+server.port=80
+server.address=127.0.0.1
+
+## Error handling configuration
+server.error.whitelabel.enabled=true
+server.error.path=/user-error
+server.error.include-exception=true
+server.error.include-stacktrace=always
+
+## Server connections configuration
+server.tomcat.max-threads=200
+server.connection-timeout=5s
+server.max-http-header-size=8KB
+server.tomcat.max-swallow-size=2MB
+server.tomcat.max-http-post-size=2MB
+
+## Access logs configuration
+server.tomcat.accesslog.enabled=true
+server.tomcat.accesslog.directory=logs
+server.tomcat.accesslog.file-date-format=yyyy-MM-dd
+server.tomcat.accesslog.prefix=access_log
+server.tomcat.accesslog.suffix=.log
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/resources/application.properties b/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/resources/application.properties
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index 0000000000..8b13789179
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+++ b/spring-boot-configuration/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/spring-boot-configuration/src/test/java/com/baeldung/springbootconfiguration/SpringContextIntegrationTest.java b/spring-boot-configuration/src/test/java/com/baeldung/springbootconfiguration/SpringContextIntegrationTest.java
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index 0000000000..d6b2b50a2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-configuration/src/test/java/com/baeldung/springbootconfiguration/SpringContextIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.baeldung.springbootconfiguration;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
+
+@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
+@SpringBootTest
+public class SpringContextIntegrationTest {
+
+	@Test
+	public void contextLoads() {
+	}
+
+}