While running the basic web application using Spring Boot and embedded Tomcat, I am getting the error Tomcat Connector in failed state.
The problem is resolved once the default port is changed from 8080 to 8181
java -jar target/gs-serving-web-content-0.1.0.jar –server.port=8181
Solution found from:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20735205/launching-spring-application-address-already-in-use
Step 1. Install Java
Step 2. Download Tomcat from web site to a location where you want to install Tomcat. for eg: C:xxxxapache-tomcat-7.0.57
Step 3. Create environment variables
JAVA_HOME=C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0_25
JRE_HOME=C:Program FilesJavajre1.8.0_25
Step 4. Download eclipse and unzip at a proper location C:xxxxeclipse-jee-luna-R-win32-x86_64
Step 5: Follow the remaining steps below to configure tomcat in eclipse
Double click on the server and select the server location -> to use Tomcat installation.
Step 6. Configure Users and Groups for Tomcat
Open tomcat-users.xml file under C:xxxxapache-tomcat-7.0.57conf and add the user and the roles.
<role rolename=“manager-gui”/>
<role rolename=“admin-gui”/>
<user password=“tomcat” roles=“manager-gui,admin-gui” username=“tomcat”/>
Step 7. Start the server. The admin console url is http://localhost:8080/
