Unable to Add external Server Tomcat In Netbeans 7.1

Question

I am going to add Tomcat server in Netbeans 7.1 , it shows:

The specified Server Location (Catalina Home) folder is not valid.

Answer 1

If you are getting:

The specified Server location(catalina home) folder not valid

error, it simply means you have not specified the correct directory to the tomcat,

Right click on Servers in your Netbean->Add server-> Apache Tomcat or TomcatEE->Next->Browse So when you navigate to the the extracted folder of the tomcat make sure you click it one more time to get into the root directory and the error will disappear, then click finish.