I am using a property place holder to reference a file, it works when deployed, but intellij is not picking up the catalina home. I have tried setting windows environment varibale and path in intellij ide settings, makes no difference still shows an error (which borks my datasource in the ide) I could place the conf file in project directory instead, but then the project will not be portable to other tomcat installs without further jiggery pokery ....
Surely there is a way that intellij will recognize and reference correctly ${catalina.home} within my spring application context ?
Sys variable is set up ok :
