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I have a problem.
I have installed Tomcat7 with apt-get and it works fine. But, when I try to start this server from Eclipse it fails with error:
Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at /Servers/Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-config. The configuration may be corrupt orincomplete. Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at /Servers/Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-config. The configuration may be corrupt or incomplete.
What should I do?
There are possible configurations that would work out for you in line with creating symbolic links to tomcat7 directories but the simplest would be you to download a tomcat tar ball, extract it in your home directory an point eclipse to it
I think there is a permission problem. You can solve this problem
by either changing the permission of tomcat installation directory or
by changing the ownership of the tomcat installation directory.
Changing the ownership:
Let's say that there is a user: tookuk and group: tookuk then
you can change the ownership of directory from root:root to
tookuk:tookuk like this:
sudo chown -R tookuk:tookuk apache-tomcat-directory/
for example If you have installed tomcat in /opt/tomcat then the command will be:
sudo chown -R tookuk:tookuk /opt/tomcat/
It is a permission problem because Eclipse thinks your user account has access to all of the conf files in /etc/tomcat8 (even if they are linked). You can change the permissions on the linked folders and make sure the links are set correctly.
However, after finally getting that all to work, I realized that by NOT using the distro release of Tomcat, I could put a full server in a single directory structure (vs links to /etc/tomcat8 and /var/log/tomcat8). This made Eclipse much happier and there was no need to update links or permissions.
Both of these solutions work, one is much simpler to set up.
