Can anyone tell me if they know of another list where I can ask my questions. I thought tomcat would be most appropiate as its 2/4 tomcat 1/4 apache and 1/4 eclipse.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Wesley Acheson <wesley.ache...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I wish to launch tomcat from eclipse either using the conf files in my > tomcat installation directory or with a similar configuration through > eclipse on apache. > > The steps that I've already got working are as follows. > > I've installed XAMPP for apache and ssl support. > > I've installed tomcat. > > I've got apache forwarding requests to tomcat on both ports 443 and 80. > (https and http). > > I've set up the root application with reloadable="true" and a path to > within my workspace. > > So far so good. Changing a file in this directory appears immediatly > through tomcat started with the start bat file. > > However if I define the server in eclipse and start it, navigating to > localhost:8080 gives a 404 error. Now I guess this is expected as eclipse > is managing tomcat. > > I don't know however to do three things. > > > 1. Start apache + tomcat through eclipse. (Necessary for SSL) > 2. Start a root application through eclipse. > 3. Have autocompile on in an eclipse project. (I don't like the > rebuilding and deploying a WAR file as you loose session infomation and its > quite unnecessary near the start of a development cycle when trivial JSP > changes are involved) > > > > I hope that someone can help me with any or all of the above points. > > One last question is it possible for launching apache to launch tomcat? > > Regards, > > Wesley Acheson >
