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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr> on 2014/11/19 16:23:16 UTC
Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM
process
Hello and thank you for reading my post.
My problem is about debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a
stand-alone JVM process.
-- In more details --
Below is what I would like to do:
- Start Tomcat:
- on Windows: via "startup.bat" in a "cmd.exe" ;
- on Unix (Debian Squeeze): via "JSVC" in a "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" script.
- Run Eclipse (Juno):
as a non-root user (say "U").
- Debug a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process
(NOT running Tomcat from within the Eclipse JVM).
This article states that it is possible to do this:
http://blogs.mulesoft.org/debugging-your-tomcat-webapp-with-eclipse/
Excerpt:
"Once you have Tomcat running successfully as a separate process,
and your webapp happily running on it,
you can begin configuring remote debugging."
A) First of all, I do not manage to:
have Tomcat run successfully as a separate process,
and your webapp happily running on it
[in Eclipse (personal addition)].
Can you tell me what I have to do?
(I hope it doesn't mean putting a .war file in the Tomcat "webapps"
directory because I know how to do that already).
B) Second of all.
As for the debugging part, below is what I did so far:
1) In "startup.bat", I added the two lines:
set "JPDA_ADDRESS=8000"
set "JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket"
I modified the line:
call "%EXECUTABLE%" jpda start %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
Below is the "startup.bat" that I have presently:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
@echo off
rem
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Start script for the CATALINA Server
rem
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
setlocal
rem Guess CATALINA_HOME if not defined
set "CURRENT_DIR=%cd%"
if not "%CATALINA_HOME%" == "" goto gotHome
set "CATALINA_HOME=%CURRENT_DIR%"
if exist "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat" goto okHome
cd ..
set "CATALINA_HOME=%cd%"
cd "%CURRENT_DIR%"
:gotHome
if exist "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat" goto okHome
echo The CATALINA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
echo This environment variable is needed to run this program
goto end
:okHome
set "JPDA_ADDRESS=8000"
set "JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket"
set "EXECUTABLE=%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat"
rem Check that target executable exists
if exist "%EXECUTABLE%" goto okExec
echo Cannot find "%EXECUTABLE%"
echo This file is needed to run this program
goto end
:okExec
rem Get remaining unshifted command line arguments and save them in the
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=
:setArgs
if ""%1""=="""" goto doneSetArgs
set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1
shift
goto setArgs
:doneSetArgs
call "%EXECUTABLE%" jpda start %CMD_LINE_ARGS%
:end
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2) In Eclipse, I went to the menu "Run -> Debug Configurations... -> Remote
Java Application"
I entered the following values:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: ExternalTomcat
Project: webapp_pjt1
Connection type: Standard (Socket Attach)
Host: localhost
Port: 8000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I clicked the buttons "Apply" and then "Debug".
3) I set a breakpoint somewhere relevant in the Webapp code.
4) I tried to send an HTTP request to the Tomcat server:
I entered https://localhost/webapp_pjt1/welcome.jsp in a browser (NOT
the Eclipse internal browser).
I got a HTTP 404 error.
Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
Best regards.
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM
process
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Konstantin,
On 11/19/14 8:35 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2014-11-19 22:06 GMT+03:00 Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>:
>> Thank you for your answer. Your link helped.
>>
>> What was missing from the scenario I described previously was:
>> exporting the .war of the webapps into the Tomcat "webapps"
>> directory.
>>
>> Actually, I was hoping it would be done automatically
>> "somehow"... :'/ Is there - by any chance - an option "somewhere"
>> that I have been missing which would automatically export the
>> webapps .war archives to the Tomcat "webapps" directory... at
>> build time for instance? Hope my question is clear enough.
>
>
> The proper temp is not "exporting", but "deployment".
>
> Deployment can be done from Ant or from Maven. There exists tools
> for that.
>
> If you are developing your web application, is there a reason why
> you run Tomcat standalone and not from within Eclipse IDE?
Because she wants to debug remotely (I think).
- -chris
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Mark Eggers <it...@yahoo.com.INVALID>.
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Léa,
On 11/20/2014 7:24 AM, Léa Massiot wrote:
> Thank you for your answer.
>
>> Konstantin Kolinko wrote: Why do you need the ports to be 80 and
>> 443? (You cannot open those on Linux unless you are a root). You
>> can a) change the port numbers in your configuration b) use
>> firewall (iptables) to map different local ports to those
>> external ones
>> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_to_run_Tomcat_without_root_privileges.3F
>
>>
> Well, apparently, according to the author of this article, I chose
> the best method (JSVC)! But thank you very much for pointing me
> towards this article and this FAQ which looks very interesting,
> full of interesting questions (and answers). Indeed the iptables
> solution looks attracting. I chose JSVC because I wanted Tomcat to
> be started at boot time and, if I'm not mistaken, this is root who
> runs the "/etc/init.d/" scripts including the "/etc/init.d/tomcat7"
> script... but I needed Tomcat to be run as a non-root user etc.
> etc.
>
>> Konstantin Kolinko wrote: Also,
>> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Linux_Unix#Q5
>
> That's exactly what I did and I did it for exactly the same reasons
> given in this article. I didn't install the Tomcat Debian package.
> I'm glad I did right.
>
> Best regards.
On my Linux development machines where I also run a Tomcat at boot
time, I just use different ports.
I have a requirement to use Apache HTTPD in front of Tomcat, so that
runs on ports 80/443. Tomcat is installed and run as a non-privileged
user and I normally use the default ports (unless I have multiple
Tomcat installations).
This means that my development Tomcat (run as me and controlled by
NetBeans) has to run on a different set of ports. This should be
possible with Eclipse as well. Just edit server.xml.
In short, don't use the Tomcat started by init (soon to be systemd)
for development work. Run one from your account and control it with
the IDE. This way you can restart it in debug mode, examine the logs
without becoming root, and bring the server up and down with no issues.
Once you are to a point in the development process where you want
others to test, you can deploy the WAR file to the Tomcat started
during boot time.
. . . just my two cents
/mde/
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
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Posted by Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>.
Thank you for yours answers.
@Glen Peterson: Thanks for sharing about the method you use.
Best regards.
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM
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Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Mark,
On 11/20/14 4:09 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> On 11/20/2014 12:11 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> Léa,
>
>> On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, Léa Massiot wrote:
>>> Thank you for your answers.
>
>>> @MarkEggers Thank you very much for sharing.
>
>>>> Christopher Schultz wrote There are reasons to use jsvc, but
>>>> the ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them.
>
>>> What are these reasons according to you (apart from running
>>> Tomcat as a daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at
>>> the time)?
>
>> Several I can think of without spending too much time:
>
>> 1. (by a large margin) Allows access to ports < 1024
>
> This is not required. Use either su -c or runuser -c (if using
> SELinux) to access ports < 1024.
Run as root? No thanks. Perhaps SELinux will allow a non-root user to
bind to low ports, but "normal" Linux does not.
>> 2. Automatic re-start of JVM process if the JVM exits
>
> This is nice, especially for misbehaving web applications that
> cannot (or will not) be fixed.
True. But auto-restart is sometimes better than getting a page. ;)
>> 3. Control JVM process by sending signal to parent process
>
> This is also nice, but reasonably written init scripts will do most
> of what is needed.
+1
>> 4. Enable rotation of stdout/stderr files
>
> Without restarting, this is nice. There are several hacks you can
> do with logrotate that are useful, but they all have drawbacks.
+1
- -chris
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Mark Eggers <it...@yahoo.com.INVALID>.
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Chris,
On 11/20/2014 12:11 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Léa,
>
> On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, Léa Massiot wrote:
>> Thank you for your answers.
>
>> @MarkEggers Thank you very much for sharing.
>
>>> Christopher Schultz wrote There are reasons to use jsvc, but
>>> the ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them.
>
>> What are these reasons according to you (apart from running
>> Tomcat as a daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at the
>> time)?
>
> Several I can think of without spending too much time:
>
> 1. (by a large margin) Allows access to ports < 1024
This is not required. Use either su -c or runuser -c (if using
SELinux) to access ports < 1024.
> 2. Automatic re-start of JVM process if the JVM exits
This is nice, especially for misbehaving web applications that cannot
(or will not) be fixed.
> 3. Control JVM process by sending signal to parent process
This is also nice, but reasonably written init scripts will do most of
what is needed.
> 4. Enable rotation of stdout/stderr files
Without restarting, this is nice. There are several hacks you can do
with logrotate that are useful, but they all have drawbacks.
>
>> Also Excerpt from here:
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon
>> "jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it
>> to switch to another user after the daemon initialization is
>> complete. This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non
>> privileged user while still being able to use privileged ports."
>
> This is just a note about additional features, certainly not the
> primary feature of jsvc.
>
> -chris
. . . just my two cents
/mde/
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Re: [OT] Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Glen,
On 11/20/14 3:31 PM, Glen Peterson wrote:
> I never looked into jsvc. It sounds very interesting! To use a <
> 1024 port as a non-root user, I've always used iptables to
> redirect traffic to a higher-numbered port. When experimenting
> with iptables on a remote server, I actually like to schedule a
> reboot for 10 or 15 minutes, so that if I lock myself out, I can
> just wait a bit, then get back in without bothering anyone.
Some systems have "iptables-apply" which will save the existing rules,
apply the new ones, and then pause for a predetermined amount of time
so you can check to see that you can at least ssh back into the
server. After that timeout, it will roll-back the new iptables rules
unless you affirm that the changes should be saved.
So you can avoid the reboot-schedule and then having to cancel it.
It's just a bit more convenient.
> I hope that helps. I have no idea about the pros and cons of
> iptables vs. jsvc for this. I just know we were using iptables for
> security already, so this was a convenient way around the "root <
> 1024 port" restriction.
iptables does get you around the port number restrictions which is
most often the reason I hear of folks using jsvc.
- -chris
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process
Posted by Glen Peterson <gl...@organicdesign.org>.
I never looked into jsvc. It sounds very interesting! To use a <
1024 port as a non-root user, I've always used iptables to redirect
traffic to a higher-numbered port. When experimenting with iptables
on a remote server, I actually like to schedule a reboot for 10 or 15
minutes, so that if I lock myself out, I can just wait a bit, then get
back in without bothering anyone. But assuming that you are an
iptables pro already, here's the critical part.
# Allow an inbound packet to initiate an HTTPS session
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT --dport 443 -m state --state NEW
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT --dport 8443 -m state --state NEW
# Forward port 443 to 8443 where tomcat is listening as a non-root user
# Redirect for both ethernet cards for consistency.
$IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8443
I hope that helps. I have no idea about the pros and cons of iptables
vs. jsvc for this. I just know we were using iptables for security
already, so this was a convenient way around the "root < 1024 port"
restriction.
Oh, and I put these rules in an /etc/init.d startup script, with the
proper dependencies, so that if the server is rebooted for some
reason, the web server automatically starts up on reboot (after all
its dependencies are satisfied). That's saved me a number of
late-night headaches.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> Léa,
>
> On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, Léa Massiot wrote:
>> Thank you for your answers.
>>
>> @MarkEggers Thank you very much for sharing.
>>
>>> Christopher Schultz wrote There are reasons to use jsvc, but the
>>> ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them.
>>
>> What are these reasons according to you (apart from running Tomcat
>> as a daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at the time)?
>
> Several I can think of without spending too much time:
>
> 1. (by a large margin) Allows access to ports < 1024
> 2. Automatic re-start of JVM process if the JVM exits
> 3. Control JVM process by sending signal to parent process
> 4. Enable rotation of stdout/stderr files
>
>> Also Excerpt from here:
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon
>> "jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it to
>> switch to another user after the daemon initialization is complete.
>> This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non privileged user
>> while still being able to use privileged ports."
>
> This is just a note about additional features, certainly not the
> primary feature of jsvc.
>
> - -chris
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM
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Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Léa,
On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, Léa Massiot wrote:
> Thank you for your answers.
>
> @MarkEggers Thank you very much for sharing.
>
>> Christopher Schultz wrote There are reasons to use jsvc, but the
>> ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them.
>
> What are these reasons according to you (apart from running Tomcat
> as a daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at the time)?
Several I can think of without spending too much time:
1. (by a large margin) Allows access to ports < 1024
2. Automatic re-start of JVM process if the JVM exits
3. Control JVM process by sending signal to parent process
4. Enable rotation of stdout/stderr files
> Also Excerpt from here:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon
> "jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it to
> switch to another user after the daemon initialization is complete.
> This allows, for example, running Tomcat as a non privileged user
> while still being able to use privileged ports."
This is just a note about additional features, certainly not the
primary feature of jsvc.
- -chris
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>.
Thank you for your answers.
@MarkEggers
Thank you very much for sharing.
> Christopher Schultz wrote
> There are reasons to use jsvc, but the ability to run as a non-root uses
> is not one of them.
What are these reasons according to you (apart from running Tomcat as a
daemon on Unix which was also one of my goals at the time)?
Also Excerpt from here:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/setup.html#Unix_daemon
"jsvc has other useful parameters, such as -user which causes it to switch
to another user after the daemon initialization is complete. This allows,
for example, running Tomcat as a non privileged user while still being able
to use privileged ports."
Thanks.
Best regards.
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM
process
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Léa,
On 11/20/14 10:24 AM, Léa Massiot wrote:
> Thank you for your answer.
>
>> Konstantin Kolinko wrote: Why do you need the ports to be 80 and
>> 443? (You cannot open those on Linux unless you are a root). You
>> can a) change the port numbers in your configuration b) use
>> firewall (iptables) to map different local ports to those
>> external ones
>> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_to_run_Tomcat_without_root_privileges.3F
>
>>
> Well, apparently, according to the author of this article, I chose
> the best method (JSVC)! But thank you very much for pointing me
> towards this article and this FAQ which looks very interesting,
> full of interesting questions (and answers). Indeed the iptables
> solution looks attracting. I chose JSVC because I wanted Tomcat to
> be started at boot time and, if I'm not mistaken, this is root who
> runs the "/etc/init.d/" scripts including the "/etc/init.d/tomcat7"
> script... but I needed Tomcat to be run as a non-root user etc.
> etc.
>
>> Konstantin Kolinko wrote: Also,
>> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Linux_Unix#Q5
>
> That's exactly what I did and I did it for exactly the same reasons
> given in this article. I didn't install the Tomcat Debian package.
> I'm glad I did right.
We also run on Debian Linux and we do not use jsvc. We just use "su"
to run a command as a different user on startup. There are reasons to
use jsvc, but the ability to run as a non-root uses is not one of them.
- -chris
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>.
Thank you for your answer.
> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> Why do you need the ports to be 80 and 443? (You cannot open those on
> Linux unless you are a root).
> You can
> a) change the port numbers in your configuration
> b) use firewall (iptables) to map different local ports to those external
> ones
> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_to_run_Tomcat_without_root_privileges.3F
Well, apparently, according to the author of this article, I chose the best
method (JSVC)!
But thank you very much for pointing me towards this article and this FAQ
which looks very interesting, full of interesting questions (and answers).
Indeed the iptables solution looks attracting.
I chose JSVC because I wanted Tomcat to be started at boot time and,
if I'm not mistaken, this is root who runs the "/etc/init.d/" scripts
including the "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" script...
but I needed Tomcat to be run as a non-root user etc. etc.
> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> Also,
> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Linux_Unix#Q5
That's exactly what I did and I did it for exactly the same reasons given in
this article.
I didn't install the Tomcat Debian package.
I'm glad I did right.
Best regards.
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process
Posted by Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>.
2014-11-20 13:56 GMT+03:00 Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>:
> Thank you for your answer.
>
>> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>> Deployment can be done from Ant or from Maven. There exists tools for
>> that.
>
> Ok, I understand.
>
>> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>> If you are developing your web application, is there a reason why you
>> run Tomcat standalone and not from within Eclipse IDE?
>
> Here is why.
> On a Unix machine, I start Tomcat as a service, as a non-root user and via
> JSVC. (This is the "as a non-root user" part which is important here for
> me).
> Below is what I tried.
> First test:
> - remove "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" from "/etc/init.d/" and reboot the machine so
> that Tomcat is not automatically started at all (and so that I'm sure no
> other process is using the TCP ports 80 and 443) ;
> - run Eclipse as a non-root user ;
> - add a "local" Tomcat server to the Eclipse workspace ;
> - run a JSP on the server.
> => I get the error message:
> "Several ports (443, 80) required by Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost are
> already in use. The server may already be running in another process, or a
> system process may be using the port. To start this server you will need to
> stop the other process or change the port number(s)."
>
> Second test:
> - run Eclipse as root ;
> - run a JSP on the server.
> => There is no error message anymore.
>
> BUT, I need to run Tomcat as a non-root user. In particular, I need it for
> subsequent operations made via the webapps deployed on the Tomcat server
> (for example: directories and files creations).
>
> This is the reason why I wanted to "use" the standalone Tomcat that is
> started via the "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" script.
>
> Usually, on my Windows development machine, I do not have these kind of
> issues.
> This is why I normally and usually use the Tomcat running on the Eclipse
> JVM.
>
> Does it make any sense?
> I wonder how people developing daily on a Unix machine do to debug their
> webapps in Eclipse as a non-root user.
> Maybe you do? I would totally be glad to know what is the usual practice.
Why do you need the ports to be 80 and 443? (You cannot open those on
Linux unless you are a root).
You can
a) change the port numbers in your configuration
b) use firewall (iptables) to map different local ports to those external ones
https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_to_run_Tomcat_without_root_privileges.3F
Also,
https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Linux_Unix#Q5
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>.
Thank you for your answer.
> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> Deployment can be done from Ant or from Maven. There exists tools for
> that.
Ok, I understand.
> Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> If you are developing your web application, is there a reason why you
> run Tomcat standalone and not from within Eclipse IDE?
Here is why.
On a Unix machine, I start Tomcat as a service, as a non-root user and via
JSVC. (This is the "as a non-root user" part which is important here for
me).
Below is what I tried.
First test:
- remove "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" from "/etc/init.d/" and reboot the machine so
that Tomcat is not automatically started at all (and so that I'm sure no
other process is using the TCP ports 80 and 443) ;
- run Eclipse as a non-root user ;
- add a "local" Tomcat server to the Eclipse workspace ;
- run a JSP on the server.
=> I get the error message:
"Several ports (443, 80) required by Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost are
already in use. The server may already be running in another process, or a
system process may be using the port. To start this server you will need to
stop the other process or change the port number(s)."
Second test:
- run Eclipse as root ;
- run a JSP on the server.
=> There is no error message anymore.
BUT, I need to run Tomcat as a non-root user. In particular, I need it for
subsequent operations made via the webapps deployed on the Tomcat server
(for example: directories and files creations).
This is the reason why I wanted to "use" the standalone Tomcat that is
started via the "/etc/init.d/tomcat7" script.
Usually, on my Windows development machine, I do not have these kind of
issues.
This is why I normally and usually use the Tomcat running on the Eclipse
JVM.
Does it make any sense?
I wonder how people developing daily on a Unix machine do to debug their
webapps in Eclipse as a non-root user.
Maybe you do? I would totally be glad to know what is the usual practice.
Best regards.
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process
Posted by Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>.
2014-11-19 22:06 GMT+03:00 Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>:
> Thank you for your answer.
> Your link helped.
>
> What was missing from the scenario I described previously was:
> exporting the .war of the webapps into the Tomcat "webapps" directory.
>
> Actually, I was hoping it would be done automatically "somehow"... :'/
> Is there - by any chance - an option "somewhere" that I have been missing
> which would automatically export the webapps .war archives to the Tomcat
> "webapps" directory... at build time for instance?
> Hope my question is clear enough.
The proper temp is not "exporting", but "deployment".
Deployment can be done from Ant or from Maven. There exists tools for that.
If you are developing your web application, is there a reason why you
run Tomcat standalone and not from within Eclipse IDE?
https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing#Q6
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Léa Massiot <lm...@orange.fr>.
Thank you for your answer.
Your link helped.
What was missing from the scenario I described previously was:
exporting the .war of the webapps into the Tomcat "webapps" directory.
Actually, I was hoping it would be done automatically "somehow"... :'/
Is there - by any chance - an option "somewhere" that I have been missing
which would automatically export the webapps .war archives to the Tomcat
"webapps" directory... at build time for instance?
Hope my question is clear enough.
Best regards.
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Re: Debugging a Webapp in Eclipse running Tomcat as a stand-alone
JVM process
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
On 19/11/2014 16:23, Léa Massiot wrote:
> Can you see what I'm doing wrong?
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Developing#Q1
Mark
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