Eclipse add Tomcat 7 blank server name

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I was trying to add Tomcat 7 in my Eclipse in Ubuntu  When I click  Add new server  in Eclipse and select  Tomcat v7 0 Server   the field  Server Name  is blank and I cannot type in anything in that textbox as shown below     What I did before is I deleted a Tomcat 7 server from Eclipse and I was trying to reinstall Tomcat 7  But it doesn t allow me to type anything in that textbox and I cannot proceed to the  Next  button  My environment is Ubuntu Linux and Eclipse for JavaEE

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I am running kepler in ubuntu and had the same problem getting eclipse to recognize the tomcat7 server. My path to install directory was fine and deleting/renaming the files only did not fix it either.

This is what worked for me:

run the following in terminal:

cd ~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/    
rm org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs    
rm org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs
cd /usr/share/tomcat7
sudo service tomcat7 stop
sudo update-rc.d tomcat7 disable
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/conf conf
sudo ln -s /etc/tomcat7/policy.d/03catalina.policy conf/catalina.policy
sudo ln -s /var/log/tomcat7 log
sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/share/tomcat7/conf
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/common common
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/server server
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/shared shared

restart eclipse, delete tomcat7 server. Re-add server and everything then worked.

Here is the link I used. http://linux.mjnet.eu/post/1319/tomcat-7-ubuntu-13-04-and-eclipse-kepler-problem-to-run/

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The easiest solution is to create a new workspace in eclipse STS    File - gt  Switch Workspace - gt  Others

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It is a bug in Eclipse  I had exactly the same problem  also on Ubuntu with Eclipse Java EE Juno   Here is the workaround that worked for me    Close Eclipse In  workspace-directory   metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings delete the following two files   org eclipse wst server core prefs org eclipse jst server tomcat core prefs  Restart Eclipse   Source  eclipse org Forum

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I faced the same issue  and I changed the workspace to new location  and it worked  I hope this helps

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After trying  Philipp Cla  en steps  even if did not work then   Change eclipse  workspace and tomcat directory   tested only for Windows7   I know somebody might say that is not correct   but that did work for me after  Phillipp s steps not worked for me   It took me 4 hours to find this brute force method solution

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In Eclipse Neon 3 Release  4 6 3  on Ubuntu 17 04 with Tomcat 8 0 the problem persists  What helped me was the combination of deleting the prefs files   rm   workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings org eclipse jst server tomcat core prefs     rm   workspace  metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings org eclipse wst server core prefs   and linking to catalina policy  somewhat differently than how  michael-brooks suggested for his configuration    sudo ln -s  var lib tomcat8 policy catalina policy conf catalina policy

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In my case  the tomcat directory was owned by root  and I was not running eclipse as root   So I had to  sudo chown -R   USER apache-tomcat-VERSION

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Deleting Moving files org eclipse jst server tomcat core prefs and org eclipse wst server core prefs worked for me

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so weird but this worked for me    close eclipse start eclipse as eclipse --clean

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I had a similar issue except the  Server Name  field was disabled   Found this was due to the Apache Tomcat v7 0 runtime environment pointing to the wrong folder  This was fixed by going to Window - Preferences - Server - Runtime Environments  clicking on the runtime environment entry and clicking  Edit     and then modifying the Tomcat installation directory

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I had same issue before  the server name was not appearing in server while configuring with eclipse  I tried all the solutions which are provided over here  but they didn t work for me      I resolved it  by simply following these simple tips      Step1  Windows --  Preferences --  Server --  Run time Environments   --  Add --  select the tomcat version which was unavailable before --  next --  browse the location of your server with same version      Step2  go to servers and select your server version --  next --    Finish      Issue resolved

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I also had this problem today  and deleting files org eclipse jst server tomcat core prefs and org eclipse wst server core prefs didn t work   Finally I found it s permission issue   By default  lt apache-tomcat-version gt  conf   can be read only by owner  after I made it readable for all  it works  So run this command   chmod a r  lt apache-tomcat-version gt  conf     Here is the link where I found the root cause   http   www thecodingforums com threads eclipse-cannot-create-tomcat-server 953960  post-5058434

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