IntelliJ: configure several Tomcat configurations with different server.xml

Question

In IntelliJ, I would like to have different configurations to start several Tomcat instances, but with different server.xml config files. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

I found a way: create a directory, and put inside a copy of the conf dir from Tomcat, then use this new directory as the Tomcat base. This way, the tomcat binaries are shared, but the configurations are distinct.