Could not load the Tomcat server configuration

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I have installed apache tomcat7 using sudo apt get in ubuntu  I have added apache tomcat 7 to eclipse using Windows   Preferences   Server   Runtime Environment But when I m starting the server from server view by right clicking the shown Tomcat v7 0 Server at localhost  Stopped Republish  It says      Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at  Servers Tomcat v7 0   Server at localhost-config  The configuration may be corrupt or   incomplete      The path to tomcat7 that I ve provided is  usr share tomcat7

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You tried to start Tomcat and got the following error:

Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at /Servers/Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-config. The configuration may be corrupt or incomplete

How to solve:

Close Eclipse
Copy all files from TOMCAT_7_HOME/conf to WORKSPACE_FOLDER/Servers/Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-config
Start Eclipse
Expand the Servers project, click on the Tomcat 7 project and hit F5
Start Tomcat from Eclipse

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I ve just solved this exact problem on my Ubuntu 14 04 with Eclipse Mars 2   This could happen when Eclipse is not finding Tomcat s configuration files where they are expected to be  This place is in   eclipse workspace folder  version of your tomcat server at localhost    by default if you didn t changed server s name   So you have to copy all the files under your  tomcat installation folder conf   to the workspace server s folder   But it was easier to just remove the server from your server list and add it again  Eclipse will automatically recreate all these files again into the proper folders  Like in the picture below     In my case I ve downloaded tomcat-8 0 35 from the website  so the configuration files needed are in  opt apache-tomcat-8 0 35 conf  filesystem   Just delete the desired server from the Servers view  Window -  Show View -  Servers  and then go to Window -  Preferences -  Server -  Runtime Environment -  Add and add the server again

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In the Servers tab of eclipse  go to the properties of the server and Switch location to latest downloaded tomcat version    This resolved the issue for me   Tomcat Server Properties

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Had the same issue with Kepler  after trying to add a Tomcat 7 server     Whilst adding the server I opted to install the Tomcat binary using the download install feature inside Eclipse  I added the server without adding any apps  After the install I tried adding an app and got the error   I immediately deleted the Tomcat 7 server from Eclipse then repeated the same steps to add Tomcat 7 back in  obviously skipping the download install step as the binary was downloaded first time around    After adding Tomcat 7 a second time I tried adding   publishing an app and it worked fine  Didn t bother with any further RCA  it started working and that was good enough for me

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I know it s been a while since this question was posted  but I was just getting this exact error  and I have a really simple solution that MIGHT work for some  All I did was double click on the folder  Servers   which then allowed me to start the server with no error message  Sometimes the solution is right in front of your eyes  This might work for some people like me who go straight to google without trying fix the issue themselves

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I had the same problem in Eclipse Oxygen with Tomcat 8 in ubuntu 16 04 LTS   Solution  1  Give permission to entire tomcat folder  chmod 777 -R  Tomcat  2  Delete and re-add the server in eclipse 3  Restart eclipse 4  Start the tomcat server  It will work

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I have Windows 8 1  Eclipse Neon  Tomcat 8   The solution is to copy all the files from folder      Tomcatxxx conf  to the      Workspace directory Servers  and try to launch server again

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I know it s an old question and it has been solved already but for me the Tomcat conf tomcat-users xml file was created with a different encoding from the rest of the configuration files  The first line of that file looked like this    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  cp65001   gt    All I had to do to solve the issue was change that line for    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt    And voila   I have no idea what  cp65001  means or why it was created like that   Maybe this will help other users facing the same issue

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on Centos 7  this will do it  for Tomcat 7    my tomcat install dir  opt apache-tomcat-7 0 79    mkdir  var lib tomcat7 cd  var lib tomcat7 sudo ln -s  opt apache-tomcat-7 0 79 conf conf mkdir  var log tomcat7 cd  var log tomcat7 sudo ln -s  opt apache-tomcat-7 0 79 logs log   not sure the log link is necessary  the configuration is the critical one

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The application is trying to load  usr share tomcat7 conf  which doesn t exist  Eclipse assumes conf is in the same directory as bin  In Ubuntu  conf is placed in  etc tomcat7  and there is a symbolic link in  var lib tomcat7    To solve this  you can either   Download package from Apache Tomcat  and place them in a specific directory  say  opt  or Create a symbolic link in  usr share tomcat7  pointing to  etc tomcat7 conf

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I ve just been encountering a very similar issue in Ubuntu while trying to get Eclipse Mars and Tomcat7 integrated because Eclipse was expecting the tomcat configuration files etc to be all in the same location  and with the necessary permissions to be able to change those files   The following instructions from this blog article helped me in the end   cd  usr share tomcat7 sudo ln -s  var lib tomcat7 conf conf sudo ln -s  var log tomcat7 log sudo ln -s  etc tomcat7 policy d 03catalina policy conf catalina policy sudo chmod -R a rwx  usr share tomcat7 conf

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You can install tomcat7 in   tomcat7 instead of  usr share tomcat7    Close Eclipse  Delete org eclipse wst server core prefs and org eclipse jst server tomcat core prefs in  workspace-directory   metadata  plugins org eclipse core runtime  settings  Launch Eclipse  Go to Window- Show View- Other    and choose the Servers  Select Tomcat v7 0 Server from the server type and press Next  Enter  home user tomcat7  not  usr share tomcat7  into the  Tomcat installation directory  and press Download  Wait a few minutes and press Finish    tomcat7 worked correctly with Eclipse 4 4 on my Ubuntu 15 04 in this way

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I solved this problem  DON T USE THE  exe Unistall Tomcat and download the  zip from Tomcat s web site  Then unpack and put it in C  Program Files  Open Eclipse and set the server  it will work

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A quick solution in eclipse to resolve when Tomcat could not load as per the following error    Just refresh the Tomcat folder should do the trick   If it still does not work  delete all files in eclipse under the Tomcat folder  re-copy the server files then refresh the Tomcat folder   Tomcat should restart correctly after that

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