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Installing Tomcat on MacOS

Prerequisite

  • Tomcat 10 requires Java version 8 or later and since OS X 10.7 Java is not (pre-)installed anymore.

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    java --version

  • Once java is installed add the JAVA_HOME variable to your shell’s startup profile

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    export JAVA_HOME=<Path to Java Home Dir>

Install Tomcat

  • Download latest .tar.gz Core binary from Tomcat Download Page

  • Unarchive ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-10.0.23.tar.gz

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    cd ~/Downloads/
tar -xzf ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-10.0.23.tar.gz

  • Open the Terminal app to move the unarchived distribution to /usr/local like so:

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    sudo mkdir -p /usr/local
sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-10.0.23 /usr/local

  • 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):

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    sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat
sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-10.0.23 /Library/Tomcat

  • Change ownership of the /usr/local/apache-tomcat-10.0.23 folder hierarchy:

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    sudo chown -R <your_username> /usr/local/apache-tomcat-10.0.23

  • Make all scripts in Tomcat’s ./bin folder executable:

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    sudo chmod +x /usr/local/apache-tomcat-10.0.23/bin/*.sh

Running Tomcat

  • Starting Tomcat by executing the provided scripts, like so:

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    /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh

  • Stopping Tomcat by executing the provided scripts, like so:

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    /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh