Where is my app placed when deploying to Tomcat?

Question

I am deploying an application from IntelliJ idea to the local Tomcat server. I thought the apps you deploy are placed in the webapps folder, however it does not turn up there. Is this correct? Where is it?

Answer 1

If you're following the standard maven approach, which is highly recommended, then your output goes to the target directory, not out. With the maven approach you'll probably have multiple modules under your project root, and the target directory will be found under each module. The web application is then built into an exploded directory named after the module, but with .war as an extension. So, you have:

project/module/target/webapp.war

Answer 2

I am new to IntelliJ IDEA. In my config. I add a local tomcat server. My tomcat container is run the project's target folder.

${your project's path}\target\ ${your project's name}

In this path ,you will find the file that IDEA has build. And tomcat server would run this folder.

Answer 3

Yes, If you are using IntelliJ IDEA the application does not turn up on Tomcat webapps directory. Your artifacts are in directory, for example:

${dir.to.idea.project}\YourWebApp\out\artifacts

This is default directory created by IntelliJ.

Tomcat configuration is in the different folder. I am using windows 7. So it is:

C:\Users\User\.IntelliJIdea10\system\tomcat\YourApplicationName

Answer 4

If you are using Intellij IDEA your artifacts are deployed directly from output directory: ${project.dir}\${web.module}\out\artifacts or ${project.dir}\${web.module}\target if you're using Maven and follow Standard Directory Layout.

Tomcat configuration is in different folder.

Mac:     /Users/${user}/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea${version}/tomcat/  
Linux:   /home/${user}/.IntelliJIdea${version}/system/tomcat/
Windows: C:\Users\${user}\.IntelliJIdea${version}\system\tomcat\

Answer 5

Just for reference, the corresponding folder on a mac (for IntelliJ 13) is:

/Users/<username>/Library/Caches/IntelliJIdea13/tomcat/