[Solved] - Cannot create a server using the selected type

Issue : User goes to New -> Server -> Apache -> Tomcat v<version> Server ,in the console of eclipse to create a server instance in eclipse,but gets message "Cannot create a server using the selected type"

as shown in below screenshot ,so user could not proceed with server definition.



    Solution : Try one or all of following 

    1) Go to Window–>Preferences–>Server–>Runtime Environments->Edit and correct path to the              tomcat directory.


2) Go to your workspace folder.You can find path to your workspace by going to File-> Switch Workspace->Other. 

3) Now Go to following directory <workspace folder>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings

4) Delete org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.prefs

5) Delete org.eclipse.wst.server.core.prefs

6) Restart Eclipse.

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