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Friday, 25 November 2011

Local WebServer – Apache Tomcat


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. 



Posted by Sai at 11:51
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19 comments:

  1. Rishikesh16 December 2011 at 12:19

    Hi Sai,
    I am new to android and want to develop an app with augmented reality for navigation. Can u help me with that.

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    Hi Sai,

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  8. Mehndi Designs8 March 2012 at 22:58

    Thanks for this information this was really helpful.
    Best Android Apps

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  9. Shrikant2 April 2012 at 17:37

    Hi mam,
    Pls send me customized list view example. List view contains senders and receivers message. Sender has different layout and receiver has different.
    I have created listview but when scroll down or up there is problem.

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  10. Anonymous5 April 2012 at 16:09

    Hi geeth, will you please send me any tutorial that how to create a custom launcher theme for android.

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  11. suresh1 May 2012 at 18:45

    i want do setalarm concept in android based on the setting alarm getting the value from edittext and that edit text value display the notification based on the setting alarm time.... am new to android plz help me...

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  12. Alfi3 May 2012 at 15:30

    First, start Eclipse and go to the Workbench as shown in the "previous section". Not sure which is the previous section.
    I found a very similar article that is more comprehensive than this, and gives detailed information. Check it ...

    http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/tomcat-7-with-eclipse.html

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  13. pande4 May 2012 at 12:07

    Hello Ma'am,
    I want to send a url from my webview to a Website where it will be converted into Pdf format.The thing is that i'am not getting how to save that pdf in my SD card

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  14. Unknown20 June 2012 at 20:55

    can any one plz tell me how to set a static wallpaer in android......


    i m requesting to the admin ....
    plz tell me the solution ...its much needed plz plz plz

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  15. alexLime2 July 2012 at 23:39

    I've been using Apache Tomcat for 2 years now, and I got to say that I am pleased with it.

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  16. WIN Vijay11 July 2012 at 15:42

    Hello Geetha,
    I have a query regarding animation in android.
    Is it possible to scale(zoom in and zoom out) multiple bitmaps in single activity??

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  17. eenadu cinema26 July 2012 at 21:08

    hello miss
    your blog have information of Local WebServer – Apache Tomcat
    It is very good information

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  18. bharat desi26 July 2012 at 21:15

    hello miss geeta
    this blog is very good

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  19. Thyroid19 January 2013 at 03:25

    Hi there, just wanted to say this webserver works very well for us.

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