Install Tomcat on Mac

Install Tomcat with eclipse

Howto install Tomcat with Eclipse IDE on MacOS X.

What we need:

Tomcat

Eclipse Jee

1. Extract eclipse into your applicationfolder and tomcat to your prefered location for example into your home directory.

2. Change into the Apache-Tomcat-6.0.20/bin directory and make all. Sh files executeable

cd <pathtoyourtomcat>/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/binchmod +x *.sh

3. test if it starts

./setclasspath.sh./startup.sh

Something like this shoshould appear:

./Startup. Sh
Using catalina_base: APACHE-Tomcat-6.0.20.
Using catalina_home: APACHE-Tomcat-6.0.20.
Using catalina_tmpdir: APACHE-Tomcat-6.0.20/temp
Using jre_home:/system/library/frameworks/JavaVM. Framework/home

4. Test you tomcat installation via your browser

http://localhost:8080/

If everything works like expected shut the Tomcat instance down

./shutdown.sh

5. Now we add tomcat to our eclipse Environment

Double click on the server and select "use tomcat installation (take control of Tomcat installation )":

Set Tomcat preference to use installation directory Parameters

 

6. Modify the tomcat-users.xml file located in/<pathtotomcat>/Apache-Tomcat-6.0.20/conf directory and add:

<Role rolename = "admin"/>
<Role rolename = "manager"/>
<User Username = "user" Password = "password" roles = "Admin, Manager"/>

With your username and password for administration.

Download the latest version of eclipse. If the latest version of Tomcat is 7.04, an error may occur:

Project facet Java version 1.7 is not supported solution: select project properties, select project facets, right-click and select Java, change version