Tomcat in Eclipse remains starting/synchronized but is actually running

Question

I\'m having the following problem with Eclipse 3.7 and Tomcat 7.0.8: I\'ve added my Tomcat with a deployment descriptor in my Eclipse. I\'ve enabled \"Use Tomcat installatio

Answer 1

Try changing the HTTP port from the server configuration screen. For example if you previously had 8080, try changing it to 8090. This should automatically update the new port number to server.xml.

I started running into the same problem after I had been modifying the server port directly in server.xml. Changing the ports back to what they had been did not seem to solve the problem. It looked like the server pluging and actual configuration got somehow out of sync.