Eclipse Tomcat7 Server Doesnt support Remote Host

Question

My Problem is: When I try to add my Tomcat7 to Eclipse EE as a server, I get an error message that says:

"The currently selected server type does not support remote hosts"

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Or how to enable remote hosts in Tomcat?

Answer 1

The Tomcat support in Eclipse is meant for running Tomcat locally on your own machine. That's necessary because Eclipse deploys web modules to Tomcat by copying them into a folder in the Tomcat installation. It can't deploy things to a remote Tomcat server because it can't copy files into a folder on a different computer.

Typically you'd run Tomcat on your own computer for development, and then (manually) deploy your application to a remote server when you want to make it available to the rest of the world.