IntelliJ Jetty plugin does not extract war - intellij-idea

I'm using IJ Ultimate 2020.3 and trying to set up a Jetty Server run configuration.
AFAIK, in order to start Jetty with a war artifact it is needed to be located in $JETTY_HOME/webapps directory.
But, it looks like the Jetty plugin of my IJ refuses to copy the war (exploded, or any other) artifact to that directory, which lead the Jetty server to fail.
I was able to start the Jetty server (from IJ) only after manually copying the war file into the webapps directory, so looks like the only problem is the 'copy' step.
Any ideas?


IntelliJ IDEA doesn't copy the artifact into webapps, instead it instructs Jetty to load the artifact directly from the location that you have configured as the artifact output directory.
Artifact used for deployment:
Artifact output directory:
Startup logs showing that artifact is loaded directory from its output directory and not from webapps:


Thanks #CrazyCoder, this is a progress for me.
problem is that my output console suggests that it does not search for the artifact in the location it is set:

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Click on Edit Configurations.
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Apply these changes.
You can see a Build Artifacts under Build.
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I know this is an old and apparently answered question, but unfortunately the links provided in the accepted answer didn't give me the simple details I was looking for. For anyone also trying to understand how IntelliJ IDEA deploys your exploded war to JBoss without copying files to the deployments folder, here's what I've found while deploying locally from IDEA 14 (EAP) to JBoss 7.1.1.Final:
After you've created an "exploded war" artifact for your project (or it has automatically been created for you), IDEA will build your provided sources and place the output in the directory set in the artifact options (you can change this setting to place the output inside the deployments folder inside your jboss installation).
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Please refer to the documentation.
Basically, you need an exploded Artifact configuration with the directory name ending with .ear.
Build | Make performs hot deployment as well as Update action (which is configurable and can update only resources, resources and classes, optionally redeploy or restart the server).
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