Hot to deploy tomcat/webapps folder form IntellijIDEA

Question

I am testing a web application(Apache Wicket Based) via IntellijIDEA Tomcat integration. There I noticed that the webapp consider its running in bin folder of the tomcat. Also w

Answer 1

Ok. Let's try.

1) Create IntellijIdea project via WebApplication template. Idea should be Ultimate version, not Community edition

2) Go to Run-Edit configutaion and set up Tomcat location folder, so Idea will know about your tomcat server

3) Go to Deployment tab and select Artifact. Apply

4) In src folder put your servlet (you can try my example for testing purpose)

5) Go to web.xml file and link your's servlet like this

6) In web folder put your's .jsp files (for example hey.jsp)

7) Now you can start you app via IntellijIdea. Run(Shift+F10) and enjoy your app in browser:

- to jsp files: http://localhost:8080/hey.jsp (or index.jsp by default)

- to servlets via virtual link you set in web.xml : http://localhost:8080/st