IntelliJ IDEA: Breakpoint not being hit, and is shown without the tick, just a red dot

Question

First of all, the most similar question that I found is this Intellij IDEA: Breakpoint not being hit, and is shown greyed out but that is not the exact same case.

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Answer 1

I was also facing this issue and found that my tomcat configuration was not right.

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-tomcat
    compile

The scope tag had value as "provided". Changed it to compile and it worked fine.