How to configure standalone Tomcat with IntelliJ IDE Step by Step Guide

Hello Folks,
After a long while, We are back to share interesting tutorials with all of you. I got few beautiful requests about this tutorial.

So Today we will learn how to configure stand alone Tomcat with  IntelliJ IDE(Ultimate Edition). I'm assuming you are working with some Java web project(Spring, Struts, Play, etc)  and you need to configure standalone Tomcat with IntelliJ IDE.

Step-1:

Download Tomcat from their official site or mirror site . and then extract it in appropriate directory.

Extract Tomcat

Extracted Tomcat 

                           
                           

Step-2:

Go to File > Setting > Build,Execution,Deployment >>Application Server

Setting of IntelliJ

Step-3:

Click on + to add new Tomcat server.

Add application server

                             

Step-4:

Select Tomcat Home  as path to extracted Tomcat server directory.

Tomcat Home

                         

Tomcat directory path in IntelliJ

Step-5:

Now we need to create new Run/Debug configuration to run/debug our project under this standalone tomcat server.
Go to Run > Edit Configuration

Edit Config in IntelliJ

Step-6:

Self explanatory  screenshot of Tomcat configuration.

Tomcat Configuration in IntelliJ

Step-7:

So now Run/Debug your project under Tomcat server.

Run/Debug your project

Step-8:

Now just click on Debug 

Review Tomcat server config

Now go to your browser and check localhost.

I made this tut with relatively less text just to make it more simple. If you got any query/doubt please drop your comment here.