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

For me, this worked for Tomcat 8 on Manjaro Linux:

sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/share/tomcat8/