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Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) vs. Tomcat

By default, if you add a Tomcat instance to the servers in Eclipse 3.3, the config and deployment paths will be redirected to workspace specific locations by default. This means that if you start Tomcat from within Eclipse and go to http://localhost:8080/, you will get an error 404 instead of the Tomcat welcome page. To change this, double click the Tomcat entry in the Servers tab, then switch from “Use workspace metadata” to “Use Tomcat installation” and set the server and deployment path correctly, if necessary.

Leaving the Tomcat installation untouched (the default setting in Eclipse 3.3) is certainly not a bad idea, yet I prefer to make direct use of the Tomcat directories.

Have fun using Tomcat :-)

Tags: eclipse, europa, tomcat