Error registering a Tomcat 7 server in Netbeans 7 (Catalina Home folder is not valid)

Question

I\'m running Netbeans 7.0.1 on Linux Mint DE. Netbeans was installed through the distro\'s repositories. I\'ve now installed the package tomcat7-user so I can create a use

Answer 1

Okay, in the absence of anything sensible anywhere on the net, I downloaded the Netbeans source code this weekend and found out the hard way.

For some reason, Netbeans thinks I have an old version of Tomcat, so it's looking for the ${CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib folder. The following terminal commands fixed the problem:

cd /usr/share/tomcat7
sudo mkdir common
sudo ln -s lib common/lib

Answer 2

I like your research @daiscog I don't know how to run the terminal commands, so I simply created the ${CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib folder and now it works for me too.

Answer 3

The following fixed Apache TomCat Server (apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M4) registration problem in NetBeans-8.0.2 on openSuSE 13.1 x86_64 linux:

As root user,

1. # cd /opt
2. # ln -s apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M4 tomcat
3. # ln -sf /opt/tomcat/lib /opt/tomcat/common/lib

Then add server on NetBeans as per standard procedure.

Answer 4

1. Delete all tomcats installations,
2. If you have the netbeans installer with tomcat installation, run again, in customized button, clicked and check tomcat only
3. Now, you can open netbeans and add a new tomcat server

Answer 5

Maybe better:

cd /usr/share/tomcat7
sudo mkdir common
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/tomcat7/lib /usr/share/tomcat7/common/lib