Serving static content from Tomcat.

I am using IntelliJ on Windows and have a DWR servlet project under development. Debugging the Java side of things from within IntelliJ is working fine. Now I want to serve some static content direct from Tomcat while debugging the Java project.

Should I try to configure this from within IntelliJ or the regular Tomcat server.xml file?

So far I have customized tomcat's server.xml to listen on port 80 and after disabling IIS this seems ok.