NetBeans 5.0 and Tomcat 4.1

Question

Hello,
I'm using NetBeans 5.0 and I have been using the Bundled Tomcat version 5.5.9 for my servlet container and everything's been great. Now that I'm ready to push my application up to a web host, I found that my host (lunarpages) runs with Tomcat 4.1 which uses version 2.3 of the servlet container. Tomcat 5.5 uses servlet container 2.4.
So I downloaded Tomcat 4.1 (which has 2.3) and I don't know how to properly tell Netbeans to use it. When I open Server Manager and select 'Add Server', I can't just tell NetBeans to point to my Tomcat 4.1 directory. It wants me to select from a dropdown list of servers and Tomcat 4.1 isn't in the list.
I tried to fake NetBeans out by selecting the 'Tomcat 5' server and pointing to my Tomcat 4.1 directory but I'm getting the following message when I try to run:
FAIL - Unknown command /deploy
C:\workspace\myApp\nbproject\build-impl.xml:425: Deployment error:
Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to get Tomcat 4.1 running with NetBeans 5.0?
Thanks,
Eric

Answer 1

I found that my host (lunarpages) runs with Tomcat 4.1 which uses version 2.3 of the servlet containerPlease read the post before answering, the reasoning is crystal clear.
I don't have a concrete answer to this problem, but I do have a suggestion.
1) You can add your own tomcat server to netbeans. Under the runtime tab you will find servers, if you right click this you can add a server. Use this to manually configure your own server
2) as for the servlet spec problem, when creating a web project setting the java EE version to 1.3 might solve the problem... I can't tell this for sure because I've never done it.