Eclipse Server Locations section disabled and need to change to use Tomcat installation

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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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it worked for me after deleting and adding the server back

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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

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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

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You can change this by using the VM arguments as well in the launch configuration

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Ok  sorry for my previous answer  I had never seen that Overview screen before   Here is how I did it  Right click on my tomcat server in  Servers  view  select  Properties     In the  General  panel  click on the  Switch Location  button The  Location   workspace metadata   bit should have been replaced by something else  Open  or close and reopen  the Overview screen for the server

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Starting server and publishing without any projects helped me to modify the  Server Locations

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I started Eclipse as admin  and it worked

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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

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If your server is not loaded with heavy configuration  the best solution would be to delete the tomcat and set it again  It will be much easier then doing try and error for 7-10 times

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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

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If the former actions haven t had effect  backup your server configurations  remove the server and reinclude it  It was my case

[eclipse] Eclipse "Server Locations" section disabled and need to change to use Tomcat installation

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