I managed to solve this problem by using the following steps: Go to File -> Settings -> Plugins -> Spring Boot was not ticked by default

When I checked Spring Boot and pressed OK, it downloaded the relevant plugin. Then, in the Add New Configuration, a Spring Boot template appeared.

Please follow the following steps:

1. Set the maven goal by clicking the "+" in IntelliJ (circled area)

2. Write mvn install.

3. Set the VM Options as: -Dspring.profiles.active=development

After that it should just run fine just by clicking the green play button.

You can install a plugin called Spring Assistant: Now you can use the initializer as: Personally, however, I use Spring initializer at start.spring.io

EDIT: Adding run configuration
Select Edit Configuration from the Run menu Now in the dialog box, lick on the + button and select Application. Now you just need to provide the name of the main class. You could click on the browse button(...) to get a list of files having main(...).

Looking at my working Spring Boot 2.0.4 app configuration, I can suggest you to try these:

• Correct syntax for spring profiles is --spring.profiles.active=yourprofile in Program Arguments

• Working directory should be set to your application root folder.

I also don't have separate Active Profiles field highlighted on your screenshot.

This is my working configuration:

We also run our app as :

java -Dproperty=value -jar path/ourapp.jar --spring.profiles.active=ourprofile

Actually, both variants of active profile configuration are correct - see Setting active profile and config location from command line in spring boot

Problem may be that you have badly configured IDEA project files.

Close IDEA, delete all .idea files and reimport project.