I have a freshly installed Tomcat 7 server, and I'm trying to make IntelliJ deploy a HelloWorld Spring MVC app to Tomcat.
My Tomcat home is /usr/share/tomcat7
and Tomcat base is /var/lib/tomcat7
However, when I try to run the project, IntelliJ throws an error saying:
Error running Tomcat : Error copying configuration files from /var/lib/tomcat7/conf to /home/adonis/.IntelliJIdea12/system/tomcat/Tomcat__SpringMVCApp/conf : /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml (Permission denied)
Here is a screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/CQ3z0e1.png
Any permissions I need to set up?
Make sure that files under /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/
directory have read permission for the user IntelliJ IDEA is running from.
chmod -R 644 /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/
should help.
Also check that /home/adonis/.IntelliJIdea12/system/tomcat/
has correct permissions and owner. Could be that it was created from a different user and your current user doesn't have the rights to write into it.
If it doesn't help, download and unpack a new Tomcat installation from .tar.gz
file, configure IDEA to use this installation instead.
Note that Tomcat installed using the package manager on some Linux systems has non-standard layout and permissions, and therefore will not work with IDEA.
Try chmod -R 777 /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/
, it works to me.
I had the same problem and these steps helped me to Start my tomcat7 from Intellij :
I have Linux Mint 17,and Tomcat 7 which is installed using apt-get
CATALINA_HOME in /usr/share/tomcat7 and CATALINA_BASE in /var/lib/tomcat7
1- First I created a soft link which references /etc/tomcat7
cd /usr/share/tomcat7
ln -s /etc/tomcat7 conf
2- Then you have to change the access permissions of /etc/tomcat7
sudo chmod -R 655 /etc/tomcat7/
That's it.
For me, this worked for Tomcat 8 on Manjaro Linux:
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/share/tomcat8/
I added my own user account to the tomcat7 group.
And chmod g+r /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml