Apache Tomcat 7 - war file doesn't deploy

Question

In my web application project I use intellij idea and run apache tomcat 7 through it. I already set the path variable to tomacat bin as CATALINA_HOME. When I run it, the server is unable to deploy the war file. The last message that I can see in the idea is INFO: Deploying web application directory D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.50\webapps\manager.

I found the issue. When I run the tomcat7 with intellij idea, JRE_HOME is taken as the JDK path in the machine

Using JRE_HOME  "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51"

But when I run the tomcat7 with command prompt it shows Using JRE_HOME "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7" and deploy the war file successfully

So how can I set the jre path in intellij idea and solve this issue?

Answer 1

IntelliJ 13 introduced a new option named Use alternative JRE in the Server tab of your Tomcat run configuration. For previous versions, you can still override the JRE_HOME variable.

Not sure this is the real cause of your problem, though...