Cannot run project from IntelliJ IDEA because of jdwp error

I guess you already are debugging the server app? In this case it's not possible to connect another instance of debugger.

This is probably too late to help you, but maybe it will help somebody else. The answer is based on a support forum posting by Aleksei Sosnovski.

This can happen when your JAVA_OPTS contains two -Xrunjdwp arguments. E.g., one of these arguments might come from the server start script invoked by IntelliJ to start the container, and another may be added by IntelliJ itself. You can check by looking at JAVA_OPTS in the log when launching the container without debug. If you see an -Xrunjdwp argument, just find where it is set in the container startup script, and remove it.