Deploying an Azure App Service with file storage

Question

I am working on a project to deploy a simple mvn application as an azure web application. I've tried placing the view directory in multiple locations since the controller is returning some form of the view. The application.yml file is written like so

   server:  
     port: 80  
      
   spring:  
     mvc:  
       view:  
         prefix: view/  
         suffix: .jsp  
     profiles:  
       active: dev  
     main:  
       banner-mode: off  

After logging on to the app service registration via ssh I can see that there aren't any files saved on the server.

Expected:
The webapp returns the view word_match.jsp when a GET request is made to /wordmatchgenerator.

Actual:
whitelabel 404 error

I'm unable to upload images to this post so I've created a stackoverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70498138/how-to-deploy-a-mvn-application-as-an-azure-web-app. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.