I use Intellij IDEA 11.1.2 Ultimate Edition. I run Tomcat 6 from Intellij IDEA. Beside my .war application I have another folder that has static HTML files. When I run tomcat ma
Tomcat Run configuration has an option to deploy other applications from the server (that already present in the original webapps folder), like your static files:
Another option would be to create a second module for the static content with another artifact and deploy both artifacts from IntelliJ IDEA.