IntelliJ IDEA: Tomcat 8.5.13 and 9.0.0.M19 - Error deploying artifact. See the server log for details.

Question

I do not understand what happened. There were no problems 2 days ago, and now I can’t deploy my applications. Any of them. The only thing I did regarding the network was connecting my laptop to another socket in the house using an Ethernet conductor, nothing else. I tried almost all the solutions that I found here and nothing helped.

Logs:

C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\bin\catalina.bat run [2017-04-11 06:19:51,636] Artifact TestJEE:war exploded: Server is not connected. Deploy is not available. Using CATALINA_BASE: "C:\Users\wojci\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\tomcat\Tomcat_8_5_13_TestJEE" Using CATALINA_HOME: "C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13" Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: "C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\temp" Using JRE_HOME: "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112" Using CLASSPATH: "C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\bin\bootstrap.jar;C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\bin\tomcat-juli.jar" 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.084 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version: Apache Tomcat/8.5.13 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.087 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server built: Mar 27 2017 14:25:04 UTC 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.087 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server number: 8.5.13.0 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.088 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Name: Windows 10 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.088 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Version: 10.0 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.088 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Architecture: amd64 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.088 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Java Home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.088 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Version: 1.8.0_112-b15 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.089 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.089 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_BASE: C:\Users\wojci\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\tomcat\Tomcat_8_5_13_TestJEE 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.090 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_HOME: C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.090 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=C:\Users\wojci\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\tomcat\Tomcat_8_5_13_TestJEE\conf\logging.properties 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.090 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.091 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote= 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.091 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1099 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.091 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.091 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.092 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=127.0.0.1 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.092 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=2048 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.092 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=org.apache.catalina.webresources 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.092 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.base=C:\Users\wojci\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\tomcat\Tomcat_8_5_13_TestJEE 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.092 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.home=C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.092 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\temp 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.093 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.2.12 using APR version 1.5.2. 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.093 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true]. 11-Apr-2017 18:19:54.093 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent APR/OpenSSL configuration: useAprConnector [false], useOpenSSL [true] 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.187 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.initializeSSL OpenSSL successfully initialized (OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017) 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.560 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"] 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.691 INFO [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.745 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"] 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.763 INFO [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.802 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Initialization processed in 2418 ms 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.982 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service Catalina 11-Apr-2017 18:19:55.983 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/8.5.13 11-Apr-2017 18:19:56.185 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"] 11-Apr-2017 18:19:56.250 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"] 11-Apr-2017 18:19:56.382 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in 578 ms [2017-04-11 06:19:56,404] Artifact TestJEE:war exploded: Artifact is being deployed, please wait... Connected to server [2017-04-11 06:19:56,493] Artifact TestJEE:war exploded: Error during artifact deployment. See server log for details. 11-Apr-2017 18:20:06.205 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deploying configuration descriptor C:\Users\wojci\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\tomcat\Tomcat_8_5_13_TestJEE\conf\Catalina\localhost\ROOT.xml 11-Apr-2017 18:20:06.968 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deployment of configuration descriptor C:\Users\wojci\.IntelliJIdea2016.3\system\tomcat\Tomcat_8_5_13_TestJEE\conf\Catalina\localhost\ROOT.xml has finished in 762 ms 11-Apr-2017 18:20:06.973 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\webapps\manager 11-Apr-2017 18:20:07.084 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory C:\servers\apache-tomcat-8.5.13\webapps\manager has finished in 112 ms Disconnected from server 

When I try to connect to "localhost: 8080", I get a connection message that REFUSED and the message "Disconnected from server" in the logs. There is nothing useful in the logs (no warnings / errors). This problem is in each of my JEE applications.

As I said, I tried many solutions from here EXCEPT, with the% JAVA_OPTS% env var changing, because I do not have the “setenv.bat” file anywhere in the Tomcat directory, but in Catalina.bat this variable seems to be set correctly.
I am completely new to this technology, and I'm a little afraid to start customizing things that I don't know.

What could be causing this problem? What are the possible solutions?

Answer 1

There seems to be a deployment problem with the latest versions of Tomcat from IntelliJ IDEA. We have an open error for this with attached patched files that you can use to fix the problem:

• IDEA-171174 Tomcat 9.0.0.M19: Unable to deploy simple WAR artifact

You can find the corrected IntelliJ IDEA Tomcat plugin jar , replace <IDEA_HOME>/plugins/Tomcat/lib/tomcatIntegration.jar with it.

The original problem was caused by this Tomcat error:

• Error 60949 - Unable to deploy / deploy war file using manager

This error is resolved in the following versions of Tomcat:

• 8.5.14 and later
• 9.0.0.M20 and later

It is recommended that you either wait / install patched versions of Tomcat or revert to versions that are not affected by the error (5.8.12 and 9.0.0.M18), since the workaround for IntelliJ IDEA uses some dirty hacks to make it work with Tomcat 5.8 .13 and 9.0.0.M19, which are affected by error 60949 (broken JMX).