I have set up a dynamic web project in Eclipse with a Tomcat 5.5 installation.
I want to be to set the server to us the Tomcat installation instead of the workspace metadata location, but when Eclipse displays the "Overview" screen for the server the "Server Locations" section is disabled and therefore I am unable to change it.
The overview screen is displayed when you have the servers view open and you then double click on the server.
Is it possible to enable this part of the "Overview" screen or hack a config file to point at the Tomcat installation?
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You can change this by using the VM arguments as well in the launch configuration.
Before making any changes in Tomcat Server Location, you need to remove project(s) deployed on server.
To remove project: expand tomcat server in "Servers" view
right click and select remove
If the former actions haven't had effect, backup your server configurations, remove the server and reinclude it. It was my case.
Right click on the server, then Add/Remove, then remove any projects that are in the Configured panel. Then right click on the server and choose "Clean..." from the context menu. Then the Server Locations option will be enabled.
I've just had same issue, this is what worked for me :
Note the message 'Server must be published with no modules present to make changes' on server dialog. So after removing the projects, re-publish your server, the option to set the server location should become re-enabled.
Starting server and publishing without any projects helped me to modify the "Server Locations".
Make sure that there is no project Deploy in server. If so ,please right click on server ,select add and remove ,Then remove all project. After this you can double click on server and the option will be enabled for you.
I started Eclipse as admin, and it worked.
it worked for me after deleting and adding the server back.
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