Cannot create a server using the selected type – Eclipse tomcat

Posted on February 24, 2011 by admin

Some times if we delete the servers configuration in the workspace or if we move the workspace adding tomcat as server can become difficult thing. We will hit with the error Cannot create a server using the selected type.

To resolve this error, try one or all of the following:

1. Go to Window–>Preferences–>Server–>Runtime Environments and fix the broken path/link for the server

2. Rename the org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs to org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs.bak (or you can delete this file). This file can be found at workspace.metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse.core.runtime.settings

3. Rename the org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs to org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs.bak (or delete the file). This file also can be found at the same location as above

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86 thoughts on “Cannot create a server using the selected type – Eclipse tomcat”

Ragas on July 3, 2011 at 8:29 pm said:

Thanks that worked for me.

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cool on July 16, 2011 at 6:29 am said:

Thanks. It worked. that is unbelievable. Thanks for your help.

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jedn on August 2, 2011 at 2:00 am said:

Thanks .. It worked

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Arun on August 10, 2011 at 8:19 pm said:

Thanks..it worked for me 2..

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Branko on August 11, 2011 at 9:10 pm said:

4. Restart Eclipse.

Thank you. It worked for me.

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Anant on August 12, 2011 at 1:01 pm said:

i am glad i saw this it worked for me !

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Dale on August 17, 2011 at 8:45 pm said:

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing the pointer/expertise.

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Jamal on August 21, 2011 at 8:35 am said:

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That worked.

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Raji on August 21, 2011 at 11:24 pm said:

Thanks for such a useful tip!

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Mukesh Pandit on August 25, 2011 at 7:24 pm said:

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Waters on August 29, 2011 at 5:31 pm said:

Wooowwwwwww….

So frustrating issue.
So easy solution.

Thank you so much!

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Ben on September 14, 2011 at 9:52 pm said:

works like a charm

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md on September 21, 2011 at 7:37 am said:

worked as advertised. thank you.

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us on September 27, 2011 at 10:45 pm said:

thank you

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Nazar on September 30, 2011 at 2:36 pm said:

Thank you, it worked for me

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Christophe on October 28, 2011 at 2:27 am said:

Thanks!!!!

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AntuanF1 on November 5, 2011 at 7:24 pm said:

It works!!!! Thanks.

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pradeep on November 9, 2011 at 1:12 pm said:

Fantastic dude.. it worked like a charm.. you saved a lot of time for me today..

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jjcosare on November 17, 2011 at 11:09 pm said:

restarted eclipse and worked perfectly, thanks ^_^

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Amit Jaiswal on November 23, 2011 at 5:15 pm said:

getting stuck for last few days, it works. Thanks

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Sanjana on November 28, 2011 at 4:42 pm said:

Thanks…!!

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Anant on December 7, 2011 at 7:05 pm said:

Worked for me. Thanks.

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van Pham Viet on December 9, 2011 at 1:36 am said:

Thanks a lots!

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Madhu on December 16, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:

Thanks very much…. I struggle a lot for this error…Finally I got the solution through your reference…It’s working fine…

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don on December 19, 2011 at 9:43 pm said:

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sapna on January 11, 2012 at 1:45 pm said:

it’s not working it gives me same error

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Donizete on January 25, 2012 at 7:35 am said:

Very good!!! Thanks!!!!

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Vinay on February 3, 2012 at 9:51 pm said:

Thank you

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Bogdan on February 7, 2012 at 3:46 am said:

Worked like a charm!
Didn’t even read steps 2 & 3
Thank you!

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arbud on February 20, 2012 at 1:09 pm said:

thanks u save me..

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hina on February 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm said:

it worked for me thanks

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mzarecta on February 24, 2012 at 8:22 am said:

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lele on March 6, 2012 at 10:09 am said:

works for me !! thanks a lot

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akanksha on March 6, 2012 at 9:45 pm said:

thanks…it works now…

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tom on March 18, 2012 at 8:39 pm said:

I get this error but my tomcat path is correct & I can not find org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs at the path suggested above

~/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings$ ls
org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs org.eclipse.team.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.debug.ui.prefs org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.prefs org.eclipse.ui.ide.prefs
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.prefs org.eclipse.ui.prefs
org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs org.eclipse.ui.views.log.prefs
org.eclipse.pde.core.prefs

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hICHAM on March 21, 2012 at 1:33 am said:

please where i can find the rg.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs, i cant find it at the plugins folder into eclipse, please some help

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Federica on March 23, 2012 at 5:09 pm said:

Thank you!!!! Works like a charm! I was spending lots of time on it )

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Anurag on March 25, 2012 at 5:20 am said:

Thanx a lot. the first step solved my problem

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rajesh on March 30, 2012 at 8:32 pm said:

Thanks , its work

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cevat on March 31, 2012 at 6:21 am said:

thank you!

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Deva on April 12, 2012 at 9:49 pm said:

Thanks it worked for me

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Gohila on April 19, 2012 at 9:27 pm said:

Thanks it works:)

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Mesut on April 25, 2012 at 6:43 am said:

thanks lots of !!!

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Shivkant Pandey on April 29, 2012 at 1:50 am said:

Thanks a lot. It worked for me.

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uttara on May 10, 2012 at 10:44 pm said:

Thanks very much

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chougamonkey on May 24, 2012 at 2:01 am said:

Nice! works like a charm
Thanks for sharing.

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Marseld on May 30, 2012 at 11:25 pm said:

Thanks, works for me too.

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Christine on June 6, 2012 at 8:57 pm said:

This didn’t work for me (also restarted Eclipse Indigo JEE).
Tomcat is installed here (/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.23)
I have it symbolically linked to /Library/Tomcat (so I can see it through folder browser on MAC OS 10.6.8; probably a better way, but I a way to do that yet).
I can select Tomcat 7.0 (and it runs and I can display my website and use example java servlets, etc. from oreily book), but I can’t get Eclipse to add it. I get the error message ” Cannot create a server using the selected type”
Not sure what to try next to fix this.

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Christine on June 7, 2012 at 8:02 am said:

My apologies, it did work. I had only deleted one of the files. It worked for me too. Thanks!

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vani on June 7, 2012 at 11:03 pm said:

thanks a lot…

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Jonas on June 8, 2012 at 5:06 pm said:

Thanks, awesome. Really, really helpful.

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bhagwan Singh Sisodiay on June 11, 2012 at 2:06 am said:

thanxxx a lottt

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Haris on June 13, 2012 at 1:25 am said:

thank you so much,

perfect answer…

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Bubba on June 13, 2012 at 6:55 am said:

Dude, seriously great post, you helped me sort this issue out, thanks!

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srajan on June 22, 2012 at 6:19 pm said:

Didnt work.

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Vishwas on June 28, 2012 at 3:21 pm said:

Awesome, helped me a lot! Thanks

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Ram on July 8, 2012 at 9:28 am said:

Dude… its an excellent post.. it worked well and i got my problem solved for Tomcat 7 installation…

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Jeff on July 11, 2012 at 5:50 am said:

Thank you saved me hours

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Javid on July 11, 2012 at 4:24 pm said:

Thanks

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systemD on July 11, 2012 at 9:32 pm said:

thanks for the help..

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triggergirl on July 12, 2012 at 5:54 pm said:

Really it’s helpfull

Great Work

I wasted one day fully to fix this,after all i got it.

Awesome Bossss

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someone on July 13, 2012 at 7:47 pm said:

it was really helpful, thanks a lot

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juliet on July 17, 2012 at 10:24 pm said:

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phil on July 20, 2012 at 11:28 pm said:

you’re the man! thanks a lot

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Jai on July 22, 2012 at 1:48 am said:

thnx a ton!!

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Ramesh Vetsa on July 28, 2012 at 2:01 am said:

Thank Q sooooooooooo Much. First step only solved my problem

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Andrea Negri on July 31, 2012 at 4:17 pm said:

First solution worked for me, thanks!

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Nafisah on August 2, 2012 at 12:15 pm said:

Thank you so much for the post

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Arpita Shah on August 7, 2012 at 1:43 pm said:

Thanks a lot!!!

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vijay on August 8, 2012 at 3:19 pm said:

Thanks very much….
It really good ..

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Manuel on August 12, 2012 at 2:49 am said:

Thank you buddy.

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David on August 19, 2012 at 4:12 pm said:

Thanks

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Orijit on August 23, 2012 at 6:36 pm said:

Thanks a lot.

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Vince on August 29, 2012 at 4:53 pm said:

works perfectly. Many Thanks!

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Naresh on August 30, 2012 at 1:45 pm said:

Din’t work (

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Dharini on August 30, 2012 at 9:43 pm said:

Works gr8!! thanks a lot.. hey naresh, did u restart workspace & try?

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Golebileone Quinton Setlamelo on August 31, 2012 at 9:34 pm said:

Thanks a lot, realised i am still a dummy.

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Mairelin on September 7, 2012 at 10:37 pm said:

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Saaksshi on September 17, 2012 at 7:07 pm said:

thnx………

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João on September 18, 2012 at 1:33 am said:

Thanks a Lot! worked perfectly!

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dharmit on September 26, 2012 at 1:21 pm said:

Thanks buddy…………………:)

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umesh bhosale on September 30, 2012 at 8:34 pm said:

thank you……………..

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araf on February 20, 2013 at 5:53 am said:

Thanks it worked

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