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No matter which tutorial I follow, I am unable to get apache-tomcat-8.0.9 to work with Netbeans 12. The IDE keeps showing the error message The specified Server Location (Catalina Home) folder is not valid. I'm using jdk-14.0.1 and apache-ant-1.9.15.

The error: The Error Message

My Catalina home directory C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-8.0.9 My Catalina home directory C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-8.0.9

Perhaps this error testing tomcat from the command line has some clues? Perhaps this error testing tomcat from the command line has some clues?

Ruli
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Olowofoyeku Tolu
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  • Maybe Netbeans is choking on the space in the Tomcat path ("Program Files"), could you try installing Tomcat in another directory (e. g. C:\tomcat)? –  Jul 21 '20 at 05:38
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    Tomcat 8 is ancient and unsupported. I ran into similar problems at my job: older Tomcat versions sometimes just completely break when running on a too recent JRE. Either downgrade to JRE/JDK 8, or (better) upgrade to a newer Tomcat, and there is a decent chance of the problem going away. –  Jul 21 '20 at 05:47
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    @Taschi it's annoying how simple that solution was. I tried Tomcat 9.0.37 and it worked with no problems. The thing is I'm just setting up my work environment on my new computer and decided to use the new Netbeans. The rest of the dev team is using the old NetBeans and old tomcat and everything, so I was trying to use the old tomcat with the new IDE to make sure our work would be compatible. I may end up having to downgrade to be able to work with the rest of the team. Thanks for the help! – Olowofoyeku Tolu Jul 21 '20 at 06:51

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Based on the last link from the question try this: In file nbproject/project.properties try to change this line (it may contains other path)

endorsed.classpath=\
    ${libs.javaee-endorsed-api-7.0.classpath}

to this:

endorsed.classpath=
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I solved it in this way:

Go to the folder of Tomcat and enter, the system tells me that I don't have rigths, and if I want enter? I select yes. The system displays the content of the folder. I try again to conect netbeas with tomcat and now it works.

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Gabriel
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I had the same problem and I fixed it by created CATALINA_HOME environment variable. For creating CATALINA_HOME in environment variable specify the path of catalina.bat file in tomcat folder installation without bin folder.

Ex: if you have catalina.bat in C:\Program Files\Apache\Tomcat\bin\catalina.bat, then specify in CATALINA_HOME just C:\Program Files\Apache\Tomcat as path.

Ruli
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Vasile Stan
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