Hey Guys, I m Having a problem running tomcat 6 with eclipse 3 in ubuntu. i installed tomcat 6 on my machine and when i test it using http://localhost:8080, it work fine. But when i want to create a server in eclipse, when i select Tomcat 6 , i get the following message " Cannot create a server using the selected type". and i can't click next. Any idea why is that ?????? I appreciate any help
Thanks
Not sure, but maybe you're version of eclipse does not support the latest tomcat version, try to update eclipse. I've got eclipse 3.4 and there's no problem.
If you can test it with http://localhost:8080 then the server is already running, and there's nothing for Eclipse to create. try closing down the server, and then setting up eclipse to point to the installation directory.
I you have the newer version of eclipse, try to update the Web Tool Plateform plugins in Help/software Updates... If both eclipse and WTP are up to date I don't see were the problem can be...
PS : there is a "comment" button, do not post an answer to comment an answer ;)
Have you been using the ubuntu-tomcat version (e.g. "aptitude install tomcat6")? If so, please download a plain vanilla version from tomcat.apache.org and use this. The Debian/Ubuntu version relocates some jars around and eclipse expects the "pure" version and jar locations.
(Also: see http://webui.sourcelabs.com/eclipse/issues/239179)
ok, so here's what worked for me: you must go to Window>Preferences
here, go to Server>Runtime Environments
remove the old server or add your server or change the server location...
(in my case, this problem arised when i changed the tomcat server location)
now you should be able to add new servers to your environment :)
Hi all,
I have been having the same problem (on fedora 9). You have to change the permissions of the files inside the tomcat conf directory to rw (chmod a+rw tomcat6/conf/*). Solved it for me!
Regards, Nikki
I had the same problem but thanks to all your feedback I got it fixed. In summary...
I have Ubuntu 9.04, Eclipse Galileo (java EE developers platform 3.5.1).
I installed Tomcat as follows:
sudo tar zxvf apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz
sudo cp -R apache-tomcat-6.0.20 /usr/share/tomcat6
as explained at: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tomcat-6-installation-on-ubuntu-feisty.html
Then I change permissions to the conf folder /usr/share/tomcat6/conf$ sudo chmod a+rw *
I removed it from Windows->Preferences->Server->Runtime Environment (but I don't think this step was necessary after all)
Voila!
There’s a better workaround so you can keep Ubuntu’s Tomcat6 (taken from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8541057, by DisDis)
In a terminal:
sudo apt-get install tomcat6
cd /usr/share/tomcat6
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat6/conf conf
sudo ln -s /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/03catalina.policy conf/catalina.policy
sudo ln -s /var/log/tomcat6 log
sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/share/tomcat6/conf
There. Now just go to Window/Preferences/Sever/Runtime Environments, add the Apache Tomcat6 Server and use /usr/share/tomcat6 as the installation directory!
Go to window > preferences -- Go to runtime environments --- you will probably find the location of the old install of Tomcat. Changing it to the current location will help.
Hi all,
I had the same problem, i use ubuntu 9.04 and tomcat 6.
I installed the tomcat 6 for apt-get, installed also jre, jdk. (SUN)
In order to resolve the problem do:
You have to symlink various folders that are scattered across the file system to the desired tomcat6 main (or installation) folder.
tsaid suggested symlinking to /usr/share/tomcat6, I rather use /var/lib/tomcat6.
My /var/lib/tomcat6 directory (see the symlinks I've made):
$ ls -g -o /var/lib/tomcat6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 22 2010-07-20 18:15 bin -> /usr/share/tomcat6/bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 2010-07-20 12:22 common
lrwxrwxrwx 1 12 2010-07-20 12:22 conf -> /etc/tomcat6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 22 2010-07-20 18:14 lib -> /usr/share/tomcat6/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 17 2010-07-20 12:22 logs -> ../../log/tomcat6
drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 2010-07-20 12:22 server
drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 2010-07-20 12:22 shared
drwxrwxr-x 3 4096 2010-07-20 12:22 webapps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 19 2010-07-20 12:22 work -> ../../cache/tomcat6
Also, don't forget to give full rw permission to your configuration files, in my case in /etc/tomcat6. Since you'll also need to symlink catalina.policy from Catalina/localhost/catalina.policy, don't forget giving execute permission to those folders. You can simplify with full permission to the conf folder, but it's only advised if you're the only user of the computer.
cd /var/lib/tomcat6/conf
chmod -R a+xrw *
Now, delete the entry in Eclipse under Window -> Preferences -> Server -> Runtime Environment and add a new server through Run on Server or anywhere else.