I have eclipse mars installed with the egit plugin. It successfully downloads projects from github, but how do I convert the downloaded github projects into eclipse maven web projects that can successfully launch via Run As ... Run on server in eclipse?
Let's take this two step authentication project on github as an example. How do I get this project to launch from eclipse using Run As.. Run on server?
Here are the steps I took so far:
1.) Right click on white background of eclipse Project Explorer.
2.) Choose Import > Import ...
3.) Select Git > Projects from git from the resulting dialog box
Click Next
4.) Select Clone URI then click next again
5.) Enter the following in the URI field: https://github.com/kyleboon/two-step-authentication-example
6.) Click Next
7.) Click Next Again
8.) Click Next a Third time
9.) Select Import using the new project wizard. Then click next again.
10.) Select maven project and import
11.) Right click on root of resulting project in eclipse Project Explorer and choose Properties.
12.) Select Project Facets
13.) Enable Project Facets
14.) Select Dynamic Web Module to make it a dynamic web project. Click OK.
15.) Right click on project root in eclipse Project Explorer. Select Maven download sources, then Maven update project.
16.) Right click on project root in eclipse and choose Run As...Run on server
The result is that tomcat gives a 404 error when it launches the following url: http://localhost:8080/two-step-authentication-example/
So what steps do I do instead in order to successfully launch this specific github project in eclipse using Run As...Run on Server? This question is general for all github web projects, but we are using this specific project as a case study to test a method that will be repeatable for other github projects.
