Warning the selected directory is not a valid tomcat home

Question

I installed Tomcat with home brew brew install tomcat. On Selecting Tomcat server to add a server to the application server I get this

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Answer 1

Problem:

This happens because intellijIDEA doesn't have enough permission to read and write on the tomcat home folder, this hapeens on linux machines.

Solution

let your tomcat root folder = "/opt/tomcat" then this command which will set the right privilege level for intellijIDEA.

$ sudo chmod 755 -R /opt/tomcat