How to Deploy to Intellij IDEA Tomcat Folder?

Question

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 manually from command line I put that folder under Tomcat's webapp folder and it automatically deploys it and works. However I want to debug my application so I want to run Tomcat from Intellij IDEA. I think that Intellij IDEA deploys tomcat applications into .IntelliJIdea11\system\tomcat folder. Where I can put my folder that contains static files when I run Tomcat from Intellij IDEA?

(I request the main page of static HTML file folder within an iframe at one of my HTML pages of .war file )

Any ideas?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

I think that CrazyCoder's answer is a little bit better. But here is my solution.

• Go to File -> Project Structure...
• Select your Web facet
• In section Web resource directories click to +
• Web resource directory path is your static content
• Relative path in deployment directory is where you want to find it in your application war