Pre-requisites: You should have Apache
Tomcat installed on your machine, downloadable from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
and you should have eclipse 3.6 on your
machine
Configure the webserver to be used within
eclipse as follows:
1.
Unzip the download into your
local directory
2.
Tell Eclipse about Tomcat
First, start Eclipse and go
to the Workbench as shown in the previous section. Then, click on Servers tab
at bottom. R-click, New, Server, Apache, Tomcat v6.0, navigate to folder, OK.
You should now see "Tomcat v6.0 Server at localhost" listed under the
Servers tab at the bottom.
3. Run Tomcat.
Click on Servers tab at
bottom. R-click on Tomcat v6.0, choose "Start". Open
http://localhost/ in a browser: you should see an empty page showing a blank
directory listing (but not a 404 error). Eclipse incorrectly fails to
copy the welcome pages when it sets up Tomcat, so if you want the friendlier
welcome page, go to your-eclipse-workspace\.metadata and search for "ROOT".
Copy all of the files from C:\apache-tomcat-6.0.28\webapps\ROOT into the ROOT
folder inside your-eclipse-workspace\.metadata\...\ROOT.
If you fail to copy the ROOT files
as mentioned above, http://localhost/ will result in an empty directory listing.
It is often mistaken for an error page, but if you look
closely you will see that it says "directory listing for /" and is
not an error at all. However, if you copy the ROOT files, http://localhost/
will give the nice friendly "Welcome to Tomcat" page.
4. Make empty project.
a.
File, New, Project, Web,
Dynamic Web Project.
b.
Give it a name (e.g.,
"SampleWebServer").
c.
Accept all other defaults.
5. Make a Welcome.html and place
it on the ‘WebContent’ folder of your new Dynamic Web App.
6. Now if you type http://localhost:8080/SampleWebServer/Welcome.html
in your browser, you should be able to view the page.
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