[fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat - where?

[Robert Schuster]

Hi.
It is possible to run tomcat with your userid. All you need is a stripped down
version of the tomcat directory somewhere in your home dir where you have read &
write access.

Then you have to set up some environment variables:
CATALINA_HOME= your tomcat installation directory
CATALINA_BASE= a directory containing the conf, logs, temp, webapps and work
directory which you can find in CATALINA_HOME

You can copy it from there and adjust it to your needs.

I am sure the tomcat documentation can tell you more about this but at least you
now know how its meant to work.

cya
Robert

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>From: Andrew Overholt [mailto:overholt at redhat.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:29 AM
>>To: Daniel B. Thurman
>>Cc: Gary Benson; Fedora Java Development List (E-mail)
>>Subject: RE: [fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat - where?
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:48 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>
>>>>From: fedora-devel-java-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>>[mailto:fedora-devel-java-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Gary
>>>>Benson
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:12 AM
>>>>To: Fedora Java Development List (E-mail)
>>>>Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat - where?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>>I finally am ready to test by application on Fedora using Eclipse
>>>>>and I am at the point where I am trying to run my web-application
>>>>>using Tomcat.
>>>>>
>>>>>Of course, the Tomcat dialog box pops up and asks where the
>>>>>Tomcat installation directory is.... ugh....  I have NO CLUE!
>>>>>
>>>>>On windows, Tomcat is installed by Eclipse so I dont have to
>>>>>figure this out....  but on Fedora, seems like I do.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can someone tell me what to do?
>>>>
>>>>Well, I don't know what dialog box this is, but on Fedora the Tomcat
>>>>installation directory (CATALINA_HOME) is /usr/share/tomcat5/.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>Gary
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hmmm.. ok, so I have that - but this did not help.
>>>
>>>The specific dialog box appears when you attempt to run the
>>>web-application project (RunAs->Run on Server) and you
>>>are then to choose the application server (tomcat 4,5,5.5)
>>>and provide the tomcat installation directory otherwise
>>>you cannot run the application.  I entered the pathname of
>>>/usr/share/tomcat5 and it does not allow me to continue.
>>>I tried different tomcat versions (5.0, 5.5) and neither
>>>worked.
>>>
>>>So- I am stuck - and cannot even get my application to run
>>>at this time.  Any ideas?
>>
>>Is it trying to launch tomcat itself?  That won't work as it's supposed
>>to run as root (or the tomcat user or whatever).
> 
> 
> Tomcat is a java servlet application server and yet developers
> using eclipse are doing development work so why should it be a
> "root" requirement to run and/or start it? Sure beats me...
> 
> But in any case and from what I can tell, no matter what I enter into
> the "Tomcat installation directory" textbox, the eclipse program
> keeps saying that the directory provided is not a valid tomcat installation
> directory and will not allow me to continue.  I have used eclipse on windows
> for awhile and tomcat (or other server) selections runs fine - "root" or not
> and it even "installs" the server (along with Sun's version of their app server
> w/ DB support) which makes it pleasant for developers so why not follow the same
> pathway for linux-based developers? Why force configuration make us jump through
> hoops when all "we" care about is to develop applications? I *should* be able to
> choose *any* AS with Eclipse under Linux?
> 
> Anyone care to jump in and tell me how to get tomcat started under
> Eclipse's control?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
>>Andrew
>>
>>
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