There are so many open thread on the web about this, for some it works and for most of the people (almost 90% of the web threads that I broke my head with, faced the same problem of container not getting started the second time. I tried running a spring-mvc project using the embedded tom-cat in Intellij communit edition.įirst try I did was using the Gradle tom-cat plugin, however the problem that I faced there is the tomcat server just starts once, after that from the second start the build complains saying that a container is already running. Well the question is already answered, however what I am writing here is just my observation so other fellows in the community can save some of their time. My pom.xml file is the same as the Official spring tutorial When you're ready to press run, if you go to 'localhost:8080/ ' you'll see your page. For environment variables enter 'env=dev'.=true' NOTE: 'use project settings' should be unticked. Under the runner tab, for 'VM Options', enter '-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms128m -Xmx512m.

for command line, enter 'spring-boot:run'.

On the left, click the plus, then maven and rename it 'Tomcat' on the right side.

Near the run button, from the dropdown, choose 'edit configurations.'.

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