How to use Spring Boot with MySQL database and JPA?

I created a project like you did. The structure looks like this

The Classes are just copy pasted from yours.

I changed the application.properties to this:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/testproject
spring.datasource.username=root
spring.datasource.password=root
spring.datasource.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update

But I think your problem is in your pom.xml:

<?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>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.1.RELEASE</version>
</parent>

<artifactId>spring-boot-sample-jpa</artifactId>
<name>Spring Boot JPA Sample</name>
<description>Spring Boot JPA Sample</description>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Check these files for differences. Hope this helps

Update 1: I changed my username. The link to the example is now https://github.com/Yannic92/stackOverflowExamples/tree/master/SpringBoot/MySQL

When moving classes into specific packages like repository, controller, domain just the generic @SpringBootApplication is not enough.

You will have to specify the base package for component scan

@ComponentScan("base_package")

For JPA

@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages = "repository")

is also needed, so spring data will know where to look into for repository interfaces.