Tomcat deployment: Intellij ignore context.xml and keep pick one from windows temp folder

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Created January 15, 2020 09:00

Hi,

I am trying to deploy a war into a remote Tomcat container. My problem is that intellij keep setting as web path the maven artifact name.

I do not want this behavior but, instead, I want to be able to choose my own path on which my web app should be reachable. In order to do that I created a context.xml file where I specify a context. My problem is that Intellij Idea keep ignoring this file and it always upload a context.xml file from Windows temporary folder (C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\local\temp\ArtifactName-context-xml\ArtifactName.xml).

On Idea I set a Tomcat configuration, within deployment tab I added my artifact. On Project Structure windows I then configured, on Facets tab, a Tomcat Context Descriptor and I gave him the path to the context.xml file. I have also added configured Idea to add a custom context.xml file within the war. However it is still not working.

Any Intelijj Ideas?

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Konstantin Annikov

Created January 15, 2020 09:27

Can you show the "Deployment" tab of your run configuration? What application context is defined here?

https://i.imgur.com/DohCzyn.png

Permanently deleted user

Created January 15, 2020 13:27

Thanks for your attachment! The problem was my fault.

When I open the deployment tab, the small section that contains the list of stuff to deploy, has the same size of the deployment view. Then I also use a dark theme, hence my scroll bar is almost invisible, and I did not see the "Application Context"section.

Sorry and thanks for your help!

Permanently deleted user

Created February 05, 2021 19:03

I am having the same problem. I tried changing the default path in the Application Context section, but Tomcat keeps setting the default path

05-Feb-2021 13:59:23.377 INFO [http-nio-8080-exec-4] org.apache.tomee.catalina.TomcatWebAppBuilder.init ------------------------- localhost -> /TestWebApp_war_exploded

whereas the application context specifies: