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Eclipse: How to Fix Installation of Apache Tomcat Server Issue – Blank Server Name Field?

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Apache Tomcat - Server Name issue in Eclipse

Installing Apache Tomcat Server should be very easy in Eclipse Environment.

Here are the simple steps:

  1. If you do not have Apache Tomcat on your machine, you will first need to download and unzip Apache Tomcat.
  2. Start the Eclipse workbench.
  3. Open Window -> Preferences -> Server -> Installed Runtimes to create a Tomcat installed runtime.
  4. Click on Add… to open the New Server Runtime dialog, then select your runtime under Apache (Apache Tomcat v7.0 in this example).
  5. Click Next , and fill in your Tomcat installation directory :
  6. Ensure the selected JRE is a full JDK and is of a version that will satisfy Apache Tomcat. If necessary, you can click on Installed JREs… to add JDKs to Eclipse.
  7. Click Finish .

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Last week I faced some issue with this. I was trying to add Tomcat 9 in my Eclipse on Mac OS X.

When I click Add new server in Eclipse and select Tomcat v9.0 Server, the field Server Name was blank and I cannot type in anything in that Textbox as shown below:

Can't add Apache Tomcat Server into Eclipse - Crunchify Tips

What I did before is I deleted a Tomcat 9 server from Eclipse and I was trying to reinstall Tomcat 9.

But it doesn’t allow me to type anything in that textbox and I cannot proceed to the “Next” button. After some time I found a bug in Eclipse.

Here is the workaround that worked for me:

  1. Close Eclipse
  2. 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
  3. Restart Eclipse

How to Fix Installation of Apache Tomcat Server Issue

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  2. Saksham says

    i can not found files:
    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

    I have checked my hidden folder also

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  3. mohamad says

    thanks. but for me not worked
    i can not found files:
    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

    i use of spagobi meta 5.2 java7 mysql5.1 and windows 10 x64
    server name is disabled for me

    Reply

    • App Shah says

      Hi Mohamad – might be an hidden file on windows server. Can you share screenshot from your desktop/laptop?

      Reply

  9. Carlos C says

    Thanks!!! You just saved my life…well , at least many hours of work. I couldn’t export my project because of this issue. When I did, i lost almost all my classes

    Reply

  10. Rohit Raj says

    Can anyone tell me what & why this error is coming while debugging the Web App using EClipse IDE

    Reply

  11. Angel del Blanco Aguado says

    Great!! I had the problem and I could solve it, thx a lot. I would like to add a new related finding. This problem appears when you define a Tomcat Runtime Environment before to add a server. If you add the server before, this problem doesn’t appear, and the Tomcat Runtime Enviroment is automatically added to the workspace.

    Hope that helps

    Cheers!

    Reply

  14. Eugene Arenas says

    I have the same issues, I tried the workaround and tomcat-8.. was successfully added with a status [STOP].

    I am trying to [START] the server and got a message please see attach screenshots.

    Need help.

    Reply

    • App Shah says

      Hi Anand – I haven’t tested this on Ubuntu. Might be related to it? I’ve double checked on Mac OS X and it worked fine.

      Reply

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