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In nb3.5.1 server.xml could be edited. Eg. to add connectors manually or configure other things that can not be configured by the properties tab. This feature was quite useful as I didn't have to find the file with the WinExplorer. May be we can have this feature back.
Marking as duplicate - see issue #40314. The support for editing server.xml has been removed from several reasons, since the majority of configurations for webmodule can be done in /META-INF/context.xml which is editable via the IDE now. Such an action would be also problematic when you add an external tomcat, which you do not have rights to edit config files of, or when the some server is shared by several users. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 40314 ***