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Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) 'Cannot create a server using the selected type' in Tomcat 7


I have installed:

When I try to add a new server Tomcat7, in Eclipse, I get this message

'Cannot create a server using the selected type'

and I can not continue. No problem adding Tomcat6 server.

I read this question but it didn't solve it for me


Solution

  • 1 . To fix the error 'Cannot create a server using the selected type' run the following:

    cd ~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/    
    rm org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs    
    rm org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs
    

    2 . Once you do this, another error

    'Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at /usr/share/tomcat7/conf. The configuration may be corrupt or incomplete /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/catalina.policy (No such file or directory)'

    So to fix this run the following commands:

    cd /usr/share/tomcat7
    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
    

    3 . Restart server and Eclipse

    4 . Add new server

    Eclipse need to start the server, and to do that, first, it has to stop the one running in background.

    sudo service tomcat7 stop

    If you don't have to automatically start at boot, we can use the following command

    sudo update-rc.d tomcat7 disable

    If, during server start, you receive warnings like:

    WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/common/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
    WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/common], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
    WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/server/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
    WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/server], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
    WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/shared/classes], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false]
    WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat7/shared], exists: [false], isDirectory: [false], canRead: [false] 
    

    You may also need to run the following:

    cd /usr/share/tomcat7
    sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/common common
    sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/server server
    sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/shared shared