{"id":1764,"date":"2013-12-03T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2013-12-03T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:40:19","slug":"installing-tomcat-7-0-x-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Installing Tomcat 7 On Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomcat 7 is the first Apache Tomcat release to support the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2 specifications. Please note that Tomcat 7 requires Java 1.6 or better, but that shouldn\u2019t be a problem, if you are running OS X 10.5 or 10.6.<\/p>\n

On OS X 10.7 and 10.8 (Mnt Lion) however, Java is initially not installed anymore. The easiest way to get Java onto your Mac is probably to open the Terminal app and enter java. You will be asked if you want to install it and OS X takes care of the rest \u2013 you would end up with Java 6, or you could install Java 7 directly from\u00a0Oracle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever you do, when opening Terminal and running\u00a0java -version<\/strong>, you should see something like this:<\/p>\n

java version \"1.6.0_37\"\r\nJava(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06-434-11M3909)\r\nJava HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01-434, mixed mode)<\/pre>\n
or this:<\/p>\n
java version \"1.7.0_25\"\r\nJava(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15)\r\nJava HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)\r\nHere are the easy to follow steps to get it up and running on your Mac<\/pre>\n
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  1. Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-7.0.42.tar.gz from\u00a0here<\/a>. I picked the tar.gz in Binary Distributions \/ Core section.<\/li>\n
  2. Opening\/unarchiving the archive will create a folder structure in your\u00a0Downloads<\/em>folder: (btw, this free\u00a0Unarchiver app<\/a>\u00a0is perfect for all kinds of compressed files and superior to the built-in Archive Utility.app)
    \n~\/Downloads\/apache-tomcat-7.0.42<\/li>\n
  3. Open to Terminal app to move the unarchived distribution to \/usr\/local\n
    sudo mkdir -p \/usr\/local<\/div><\/div>\n
    sudo mv ~\/Downloads\/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \/usr\/local<\/div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  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):\n
    sudo rm -f \/Library\/Tomcat
    \nsudo ln -s \/usr\/local\/apache-tomcat-7.0.42 \/Library\/Tomcat<\/div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  5. Change ownership of the \/Library\/Tomcat folder hierarchy:\n
    sudo chown -R &lt;your_username&gt; \/Library\/Tomcat<\/div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  6. Make all scripts executable:\n
    sudo chmod +x \/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/*.sh<\/div><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Instead of using the start and stop scripts, like so:<\/p>\n
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    \nwpbookpro:~ wolf$\u00a0<strong>\/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/startup.sh<\/strong>
    \nUsing CATALINA_BASE: \/Library\/Tomcat
    \nUsing CATALINA_HOME: \/Library\/Tomcat
    \nUsing CATALINA_TMPDIR: \/Library\/Tomcat\/temp
    \nUsing JRE_HOME: \/Library\/Java\/Home
    \nUsing CLASSPATH: \/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/bootstrap.jar:\/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/tomcat-juli.jar
    \nwpbookpro:~ wolf$\u00a0<strong>\/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/shutdown.sh<\/strong>
    \nUsing CATALINA_BASE: \/Library\/Tomcat
    \nUsing CATALINA_HOME: \/Library\/Tomcat
    \nUsing CATALINA_TMPDIR: \/Library\/Tomcat\/temp
    \nUsing JRE_HOME: \/Library\/Java\/Home
    \nUsing CLASSPATH: \/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/bootstrap.jar:\/Library\/Tomcat\/bin\/tomcat-juli.jar
    \nwpbookpro:~ wolf$<\/div><\/div>\n
    you may also want to check out Activata\u2019s\u00a0Tomcat Controller<\/a>\u00a0a tiny freeware app, providing a UI to quickly start\/stop Tomcat. It may not say so, but Tomcat Controller works in OS X 10.8.x just fine.<\/p>\n
    Finally, after your started Tomcat, open your Mac\u2019s Web browser and take a look at the default page:\u00a0http:\/\/localhost:8080<\/a><\/p>\n
     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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