Why does Intellij-IDEA ignore my tomcat/conf/server.xml Context tag?

Question

In my $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml I put this near the bottom:

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Answer 1

I copied servers and found that my log files are stored in the wrong location.

So for the "Tomcat prod" it was actually using catalina.base=".../preprod/..."

I ended up editing projects/.idea/workspace.xml which was next to where I installed IntelliJ