How to run Tomcat on Mac as external tool for Intellj Idea

Question

I'm setting up my JavaEE environment with IntelliJ Idea 2016.3.5 at my Mac, Sierra. My Tomcat live at /usr/local/3th party app/appache-tomcat-8.0.36./. I'm not able to use another Tomcat, eg somewhere at /User folder, where I deploy the webapp.

Error running Tomcat: Cannot run program "/usr/local/app/apache-tomcat-8.0.36/" (in directory "/usr/local/app/apache-tomcat-8.0.36/bin"): error=13, Permission denied

My question: How can I get the access to this Tomcat folder when I set the path to tool settings for IntelliJ's external tool?

Answer 1

You must ensure that you are able to read your tomcat directory.
Open terminal and locate your tomcat directory. Run this command:

chmod -R 777 usr/local/app/apache-tomcat-8.0.36/

That should allow you to run the tomcat server as an external tool in IntelliJ IDEA.