intellij idea run configurations backup

Question

I would like to create a script to modify my debug configuration in intellij. The path of tomcat changes, and i have to manually go into the run config and edit things. I have tried to find the place where intellij stores these settings to no avail.

question: does anyone know where IJ stores its run configuration

Answer 1

The location would depend on 2 factors, whether the configuration is local to the user or shared with the other developers and if you are using the file based (legacy) or the directory based project format.

• File based project, local configuration: .iws file
• Directory based project, local configuration: workspace.xml file under .idea directory
• File based project, shared configuration: .ipr file
• Directory based project, shared configuration: .xml file under runConfigurations subdirectory of .idea directory or files inside .run directory in the project root (you can customize the location of the shared configurations in the latest versions).