[NETBEANS-6375] Can't clear "the target server has not been set" error message

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 12.6
• Component/s: javaee - Web Project

Environment

Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 12.6
Java: 1.8.0_201; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.201-b09

Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_201-b09

System: Linux version 5.3.0-7648-generic running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)

User directory: /home/mark/snap/netbeans/52

Cache directory: /home/mark/snap/netbeans/common/52

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mark Phillips
• Created: 09/Jan/22 19:49
• Updated: 17/Jan/22 15:00
• Resolved: 17/Jan/22 15:00

Description

I have netbeans 12.6 on Ubuntu (and netbeans says it is up to date). I open an old project, and it says the tomcat server is missing. I click on Resolve Missing Server, go through the steps to let netbeans know where my tomcat 7 server is located, and click finish. I end up back at the same place - "the target server has not been set or has been removed" and the list of servers is blank.

If I go to the Services tab, click on Apache Tomcat, and then start, tomcat7 starts. I still can't get the project to associate with Tomcat.

I go to Tools -> Servers, and my tomcat7 server is listed.

I go to Project Properties -> Run, and there is nothing in the dropdown list for servers, and I can't add anything.

I remove the tomcat instance from Services, restart netbeans, go through the sames steps as before, and the same thing happens. Same issue if I add the tomcat7 server using the Tools -> Servers tab. 

I checked permissions on the tomcat 7 installation, and the user, group is tomcat7. The user running netbeans is mark. User mark is part of the tomcat7 group. All the files in the tomcat7 installation have group read/write/execute permissions.

I realize tomcat7 is outdated, but that shouldn't prevent me from adding it as a server, imho. The application is running on tomcat7 in production.