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I am trying to access the Help / Help Contents and I get the following error message:
Help cannot be displayed. The embedded application server could not run help web application. Check the Log for details.
My Environment is as follows:
- – Redhat 8
– Eclipse Platform Version: 2.1.1, Build id: 200306271545. This was a fresh install for MyEclipse and there are no other plugins installed.
– MyEclipse Workbench 2.7 rc2.
– j2sdk1.4.2-03
– I have both Tomcat 4.1.29 and Tomcat 5.0.18 installed.The problem occurs with both application servers and has started to occur since I installed Tomcat 5 – not sure whether this is just coincidental?
/<workspace>/.metadata/.log) contains the following message:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.help.ui 4 0 Feb 03, 2004 14:07:45.672
!MESSAGE Help cannot be displayed. The embedded application server could not run help web application. Check the log for details.This error is pertaining to the internal server that Eclipse uses for help (Tomcat 4.0.6) and doesn’t relate to the Application Servers you setup via MyEclipse. I do not know the solution to this problem off the top of my head, but you may hvae more luck on an Eclipse forum or newsgroup. I have just googled for the cause/solution to this and really didn’t come up with anything…
Oddly enough, I have the same problem on my work machine as you do (Gentoo Linux, E 2.1.2). Since Eclipse 2.x platform did not have its own cross platform browser component, I don’t know if this error is actually telling you the truth, or if it is just a catch-all failure message. You might try setting up your own browser (Mozilla, Konqueror) as the help browser and then trying to launch help to see if that was what the problem was.
I know how to fix this..
I installed Tomcat 5 and the Sysdeo plug in for TC5. It failed to run correctly and in the online support for this plug in it said to delete the following directory in th eplugins dir:org.eclipse.tomcat_4.1.130.v20060601
This then fixed my plugin problem but the help stopped working after that.
Replaced the directory and help is working again. Sod the TC5 plugin I can work around that!
Hope this helps.
Steve
