Tomcat issues inside eclipse

eclipse, tomcat

Solution

Why might the issue be?

You need to configure Eclipse to take control of your Tomcat installation. To do so:

- double click on the Tomcat Server in the Servers view

- under Server Locations, select Use Tomcat installation

This is illustrated on the screenshot below:

Problem

I am very new to Tomcat and web development in general and apologize for what may be a very silly question. Consider 2 situations: 1. I start Tomcat outside of Eclipse. I use eclipse to create a war file. I deploy it via admin console. All is ok 2. I start Tomcat via Eclipse I can't access admin console http://localhost:8080/manager/html greets me with 404 error Same page is behaving properly when Tomcat is started outside of Eclipse Please advise Why might the issue be?

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