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
