Can I use XAMPP's apache tomcat to execute java Dynamic Web Project?

Question

I am using eclipse and I have a Dynamic Web Project .

To execute it I need apache tomcat 7.0.

But I have already installed XAMPP server that include both apache web server & apache tomcat server.

How can I mount my java web app to XAMPP's apache tomcat server?

Answer 1

There are 2 possibilities

Option 1

• You have two tomcat server running
• one inside eclipse and the XAMPP Tomcat
• you have to give the XAMPP Tomcat another port number
  here we give it a new port (8090) and redirectPort (8444).

..XAMPP\tomcat\conf\server.xml

---

original

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                   connectionTimeout="20000"
                   redirectPort="8443" />

changed to

<Connector port="8090" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8444" />

disadvantage you have to deploy the Web application 2 times

• 1 Eclipse deploy it to the eclipse Tomcat server
• 2 Manually deploy it to your XAMPP Tomcat server.
• 3 Manually start your XAMPP Tomcat server with ..XAMPP\catalina_start.bat
• 4 Manually stop your XAMPP Tomcat server with ..XAMPP\catalina_stop.bat

here Tomcat runs on 8090

Option 2 Change Eclipse settings.

• Windows -> Show View -> Servers
• In the servers view, right click and add new.
• It will show a pop up containing many server vendors.
• Under Apache select Tomcat v7.0 (Depending upon your downloaded server version).
• In the run time configuration point it to the XAMPP Tomcat folder (....\XAMPP\tomcat)

Advantage

• You need in XAMPP settings to change nothing.
• Eclipse deploy it for you.

Disadvantage

• on shutdown Eclipse, it will also stop XAMPP Tomcat server
• so you have to start and stop it manually with
• ..XAMPP\catalina_start.bat