IntelliJ needs to copy tomcat/conf directory to project directory
Try chmod -R 777 /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/
, it works to me.
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.