Issue
I have searched everywhere for this. I'm sure I have read the information correctly but can't seem to get a full understanding of it.
I used this tutorial to get things going (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.3/creating-and-running-your-first-web-application.html). I do everything step by step but when it comes to running my web app, The localhost shows the official page of Tomcat and not my index.jsp that I have created. I've tried every path combination to try to get my index to show but I have had no luck.
I have done a lot of googling on this and it seems to be that when I run tomcat it reads the files from the webapps/ROOT folder instead of my project folder. How can I get my intellij or tomcat to read the files from my project? I keep reading that its my run configurations but everything looks good to me, and no one really shows what to actually do.
I wouldn't be asking unless I have tried doing this my self for hours. I'm sorry if it is really simple I just can't see it and would really appreciate your help. Thanks in advance
Structure (Ignore error messages)
I always get routed to this web
Artifact deployed successfully
Solution
It looks like you already have Tomcat service started on port 8080, therefore IntelliJ IDEA cannot start another instance and perform the deployment.
You need to shut down the service running on port 8080 so that IDE can start its own copy of the server and perform the configuration/deployment on start.
brew services stop tomcat should help in your case.
Answered By - CrazyCoder
