I am trying to use the external tomcat server installed on my machine (Ubuntu 11.10) and I a going through the motions of adding a new server to Netbeans, in the Server Location field I enter the /usr/share/tomcat6
directory but it gives an error:
The specified Server Location (Catalina Home) folder is not valid
I have searched Google, used the Netbeans wiki, and have searched here also but nothing seems to be able to get me past this point.
Yes, Netbeans does support external Tomcat installations. It does so without any problems on Windows, but there are a few wrinkles if you want to do it on Linux - with Ubuntu-based distributions anyway.
I wrote up my experiences here:
http://www.peredur.net/2011/12/linux-tomcat-and-netbeans/
Hopefully, that should help.
Yes, it is possible to debug a remote Tomcat, see http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing#Q3.
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