[gdboling]

I am having problems starting Tomcat using MyEclipse on Linux. It’s the whole permissions thing. Running as a normal user in Linux, I don’t have permissions to start Tomcat and it listen on port 8080.

I don’t want to run in su mode just to develop applications. Can someone point me in the right direction of how to resolve this.

Thanks.

Gregg

[Riyad Kalla]

Gregg,
I have a very similar setup and the same problem. For dev you really should install Tomcat into your home directory. Version of Tomcat that you emerge (Gentoo) or rpm -ivh (everything else) are going to be installed and intended as system services, not user-writeable development environments.

So grab Tomcat 5 (http://mirrors.midco.net/pub/apache.org/jakarta/tomcat-5/v5.0.18/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18.tar.gz) and untar/gz it into say

cd ~
mkdir Java
cd Java
<download tomcat here>
tar xvzf jakarta-tomcat-5.0.18.tar.gz

Now MyEclipse and Tomcat will play very nicely together and your deployments and so forth won’t be hindered by permissions.

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