Question

I have one basic web project using spring in eclispe.
I have installed tomcat v7 .

Now when i start server alone , without adding any application then it runs ok
but when i add the project to server and then strat it then error comes

"Tomcat 7 failed to start"

Initially the project was working properly but then i deleted few spring jars and then i added again but i get this error.

Now is there any way to find whats the problem. Any log files???

Answer 1

I’d recommend not starting it in Eclipse until you can start it outside of Eclipse successfully.

Open a command shell, make sure that the Tomcat /bin is in your PATH, and execute the catalina.bat script. You’ll be able to see more detailed messages, if any, in the shell.

You should also check the Tomcat /logs directory to see what they can tell you.

The CLASSPATH ought to be set properly in the startup script.

UPDATE:

Since you know you can start Tomcat without Eclipse, you know that the issue is in the IDE.

My guess is that your project needs the Tomcat /lib JARs to be available and they’re not. You can probably tell Eclipse to add all the JARs it finds in a particular directory to your CLASSPATH when you build and run (you can with IntelliJ). Right click on the project root and see if there’s a drop down to add to the path.