How to resolve admin page opening issue after tomcat configuration in eclipse

Issue:

So often you would have noticed after tomcat configuration in eclipse, the admin start page never opens!

Reason:

Eclipse doesn’t copy the default application folders (e.g. ROOT) when it creates the tomcat specific folder inside the workspace.

Solution:

Go to your “eclipse-workspace -> .metadata -> .plugins -> org.eclipse.wst.server.core -> tmp<number> -> wtpwebapps” directory
Copy the ROOT folder from your “apache installation home -> webapps” directory to the directory mentioned in Step 1. If prompted with overwrite dialog box, select yes and proceed.
Reload http://localhost/ page. Admin start page should now open without any issues!

2 thoughts on “How to resolve admin page opening issue after tomcat configuration in eclipse”

Kiran Mohan says:

August 2, 2011 at 6:21 pm

In Tomcat 7.0 at least, you have to edit conf/tomcat-users.html and add manager-gui role + some users. Haven’t tried with eclipse though.

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1. Sanjit ... says:
  
  August 8, 2011 at 3:53 pm
  yes! You need to include the following (just an example) entry to your tomcat-users.xml file to be able to login as a manger and view the manager-gui page and do tasks such as application deployment.
```
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="test" password="test" roles="manager-gui,admin"/>
```
  The above post was mainly to address the issue i faced so many times wherein after starting the tomcat server instance inside my eclipse, i was not able to open the admin page from the browser.
  
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