IntelliJ Fails Deploying exploded war to tomcat

Question

I have a Java web application I am developing in IntelliJ and deploying using Apache Tomcat. I have some run configurations defined that are shared between everyone on the team. These run configurations are defined to deploy an exploded war artifact into a local tomcat. Other team members are able to deploy and run just fine, but I get the following error:

Artifact Gradle : project : project.war (exploded): Error during artifact deployment. See server log for details.
Artifact Gradle : project : project.war (exploded): com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JmxAdminException: com.intellij.execution.ExecutionException: /IdeaProjects/project/build/libs/exploded/project.war not found for the web module.

It seems that IntelliJ doesn't want to create the exploded/project.war directories. If I create those directories manually I don't get that error message, but none of the WAR contents get placed into the directory.

I thought that it could be a permission error so I even tried giving my project directory 777 just to try to eliminate possible problems.

Has anyone ever run into this problem?

I am running MacOS 10.12, and have been able to deploy in the past, but this problem just started.

Thanks

Update

The IntelliJ log doesn't really show any additional errors, just the full StackTrace for the errors above.

2017-11-02 11:20:52,896 [3777157]   INFO - erver.JavaeeServerInstanceImpl - com.intellij.execution.ExecutionException: <redacted>/build/libs/exploded/myproject.war not found for the web module. 
com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JmxAdminException: com.intellij.execution.ExecutionException: <redacted>/build/libs/exploded/myproject.war not found for the web module.
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl$DeployStep.perform(TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.java:277)
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.doDeploy(TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.java:125)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase$4.doPerform(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:120)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase$JmxOperation.perform(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:243)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.doStartDeploy(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:135)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase$2.setDeploymentStatus(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:90)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase$DeploymentModelOperation.doSetDeploymentStatus(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:270)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase$3.doPerform(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:100)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase$JmxOperation.perform(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:243)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.doStartDeployWithUndeploy(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:107)
    at com.intellij.javaee.oss.admin.jmx.JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.startDeploy(JavaeeJmxAdminServerBase.java:74)
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminServerBase.startDeploy(TomcatAdminServerBase.java:115)
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.startDeploy(TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.java:95)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at com.intellij.remoteServer.agent.impl.ThreadInvocationHandler.a(ThreadInvocationHandler.java:56)
    at com.intellij.remoteServer.agent.impl.ThreadInvocationHandler.a(ThreadInvocationHandler.java:100)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at com.intellij.util.concurrency.BoundedTaskExecutor$2.run(BoundedTaskExecutor.java:212)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: com.intellij.execution.ExecutionException: <redacted>/build/libs/exploded/myproject.war not found for the web module.
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.addApplicationContext(TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.java:217)
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl$4.doPerform(TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.java:121)
    at org.jetbrains.idea.tomcat.admin.TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl$DeployStep.perform(TomcatAdminLocalServerImpl.java:274)
    ... 24 more

Answer 1

Before Intellij 2019.2 :

Under Gradle Settings, you have to make sure you don't have checked 'Delegate IDE build/run actions to gradle'

Since Intellij 2019.2 :

Settings is now under 'Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Gradle'. You have to select Build and run using : Intellij IDEA

An issue has been opened on jetbrains bug tracker.