Eclipse tomcat error: Document base does not exist or is not a readable directory

Question

13-dic-2011 17.00.36 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
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Answer 1

As a trivial problem, the project that you're trying to start can be closed (this could be missable, if you have many projects into the workspace!). Just do right click -> Open Project, in this case.

Answer 2

This could happen if you execute maven to build a java project

mvn eclipse:eclipse 

Instead of executing maven to build a web java project as:

mvn eclipse eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0

Answer 3

You can look into tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost,if you can see the xml file which its name matches your error message.You can just delete the xml file and restart your tomcat.

Answer 4

i have the same error, just run this maven command repeatedly and solve the problem.

mvn eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0

eclipse was not recognizing that this was a web project, so never deploy the application.

Answer 5

I had to remove an offending project/module from the tomcat config view, under the modules tab.

Answer 6

I came across this problem today, then solve it by editing the server.xml in directory of %tomcat_home%\conf, just as below:

<Context docBase="E:\apache-tomcat-7.0.52\webapps\ROOT" path="/ROOT" reloadable="true" source="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.server:pc-ui"/>

I don't know whether it is MyEclipse that have genarated the "Context" element in element of "Host", but I change it according to the error info diaplayed in IDE console.