Server is not connected. Deploy is not available. IntelliJ 13 and Tomcat 7

Question

Trying to run my app with IntelliJ 13 and Apache tomcat 7.0.42. JDK1.6

Always getting the error Artifact app:war exploded: Server is not connected. Deploy is

Answer 1

I had this issue today and it wasn't due to setenv.sh as discussed on the other thread. In the end it was an issue with $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml.

For some reason in our server.xml we were using a custom engine name for example

I tried again with a clean server.xml from tomcat 7.0.57 and the artifact deployed perfectly. After trial and error it came down to this one line.

Changing engine name to 'Catalina' as shown below value fixed our issue and allowed our exploded artifact to deploy using our customised server.xml

If you are seeing this issue try a clean server.xml and work backwards from there.