IntelliJ needs to copy tomcat/conf directory to project directory

Question

I have a freshly installed Tomcat 7 server, and I\'m trying to make IntelliJ deploy a HelloWorld Spring MVC app to Tomcat.

My Tomcat home is /usr/share/tomcat7

Answer 1

I had the same problem and these steps helped me to Start my tomcat7 from Intellij :

I have Linux Mint 17,and Tomcat 7 which is installed using apt-get

CATALINA_HOME in /usr/share/tomcat7 and CATALINA_BASE in /var/lib/tomcat7

1- First I created a soft link which references /etc/tomcat7

cd /usr/share/tomcat7
ln -s /etc/tomcat7 conf

2- Then you have to change the access permissions of /etc/tomcat7

sudo chmod -R 655 /etc/tomcat7/

That's it.