How to autowire a ResourceHandlerRegistry bean not found on application startup

Question

We've recently updated an application with a configuration class that uses the ResourceHandlerRegistry class explained here

The application starts up fine in IntelliJ but when packaged into a JAR and run from the command line, startup fails because of this error:

Field registry in required a bean of type 'org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ResourceHandlerRegistry' that could not be found.

Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ResourceHandlerRegistry' in your configuration.

IntelliJ also highlights that it cannot find an autowire candidate for the bean. We are using Spring Boot v2.3.12.RELEASE and Spring v5.2.15.RELEASE.

Any help is welcome.