I'm gonna tell you about all steps I've done. I'll also give some pictures to make my problem more easy to understand. Any recommendation will be nice.
Neccessary to say that I use
Tomcat 6 (Instaled on C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0)
Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo)
Google plugin for eclipse 3.7 (for working with GWT)
In eclipse I have created a Server I have $CATALINA_HOME set at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0
I should say also that there is an exception when I try to run Tomcat from Eclipse (I mean R-click on server -> start).
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.36
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory docs
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>
SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\work\Catalina\localhost\docs is unusable.
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory helloserver
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>
SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\work\Catalina\localhost\helloserver is unusable.
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory manager
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
SEVERE: Error deploying web application directory manager
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\conf\Catalina\localhost\manager.xml (The system cannot find the path specified)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:194)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:145)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1051)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:1002)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:506)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1317)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1065)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1057)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.jasper.EmbeddedServletOptions <init>
SEVERE: The scratchDir you specified: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\work\Catalina\localhost\_ is unusable.
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/28 config=null
12 бер 2013 17:01:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 722 ms
I checked that I have no directories in the conf directory.
Okay look what I do next (I use this manual http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/pdf/ajax/GWT-Intro.pdf):
1) Create a new Web Application Project (GWT). It works fine on Jetty
2) Than I need to export a WAR file.
3) The first problem (and the main one I think): that WAR file doesn't go to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps. But it goes to c:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ . Moreover than I try to create a dynamic web project and try to run it on the server (r-click -> run as -> run on server). And than it is deployed in the same directory (I mean c:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps). I fail to see why! What is the reason?
4) Then I try to export WAR file (I mean GWT Project again) on the desktop. It goes fine and then I manually put the war file to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps (Tomcat is still working).
5) Another problem is that Tomcat doesn't unpackage WAR file. And I get no result trying to load it in a web browser (http://localhost:8080/helloserver
). And than I manually unpackage WAR file and put the helloserver directory to webapps and it works! All works fine.