install tomcat on mac

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cd Downloads/

sudo scp apache-tomcat-7.0.69.tar.gz /usr/local

cd /usr/local

tar xvf apache-tomcat-7.0.69.tar.gz

sudo rm apache-tomcat-7.0.69.tar.gz

sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat

sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.69 /Library/Tomcat

sudo chown -R caimi /Library/Tomcat

sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh

/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh

/Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

Installing Tomcat

Here are the easy to follow steps to get it up and running on your Mac

1. Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-7.0.69.tar.gz from here. I picked the tar.gz in Binary Distributions / Core section.
2. Opening/unarchiving the archive will create a folder structure in your Downloads folder: (btw, this free Unarchiver app is perfect for all kinds of compressed files and superior to the built-in Archive Utility.app)
   ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.69
3. Open to Terminal app to move the unarchived distribution to /usr/local
   sudo mkdir -p /usr/local
sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.69 /usr/local
4. To make it easy to replace this release with future releases, we are going to create a symbolic link that we are going to use when referring to Tomcat (after removing the old link, you might have from installing a previous version):
   sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat
sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.69 /Library/Tomcat

5. Change ownership of the /Library/Tomcat folder hierarchy:
   sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat
6. Make all scripts executable:
   sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh

Instead of using the start and stop scripts, like so:

caimideMacBook-Pro:~ caimi$ /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Library/Tomcat

Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Library/Tomcat

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Library/Tomcat/temp

Using JRE_HOME:        /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home

Using CLASSPATH:       /Library/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Library/Tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

Tomcat started.

caimideMacBook-Pro:~ caimi$ /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Library/Tomcat

Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Library/Tomcat

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Library/Tomcat/temp

Using JRE_HOME:        /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home

Using CLASSPATH:       /Library/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Library/Tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

you may also want to check out Activata’s Tomcat Controller, a tiny freeware app, providing a UI to quickly start/stop Tomcat. It may not say so, but Tomcat Controller works on OS X 10.8 and 10.9 just fine.

Finally, after your started Tomcat, open your Mac’s Web browser and take a look at the default page:http://localhost:8080