Unknown version of Tomcat was specified 8.0.24 / Eclipse 4.4.2 (Luna)

Question

A couple of months ago, I downloaded and unzipped the tomcat 8.0.24 which is running flawlessly. I did some tests creating servlets in notepad, compiled with javac.exe and placed in webapps. It worked.

My version of Eclipse is 4.4.2 known as Luna.

My version of JRE is 1.8.0_65 (x64)

When I want to set my Server in Eclipse, I see this warning and I don't know what to do.

Eclipse > Windows > Preferences > Server > Runtime Environments > Add

Answer 1

Tomcat Installation directory field is meant to be pointed at your Tomcat base directory.

So in your case just fill it with D:\ApacheTomcat\apache-tomcat-8.0.24 (without bin directory)

Answer 2

In Ubuntu, point to the shared location; not the app location. Point to: /usr/share/tomcat8 and fix what they did not test:

 cd /var/lib/tomcat8
 ln -s conf /usr/share/tomcat8/conf