The Servlet 4.0 specification is out and Tomcat 9.0.x does support it. Time to dive into Tomcat 9.
Uncompress and copy apache-tomcat-6.0.32 to /usr/local. Look at the 'Purchases' window of the App Store to view the download progress) On Mac OS X, installation. Use the links below to download the Apache Tomcat. Unix, Linux, Mac OS), Native 1.2.25 Source Release zip (e.g. This version of library is included in Apache Tomcat distributions. B) OCSP-enabled. This one has enabled support for verification of client SSL certificates via OCSP protocol.
Apache Tomcat 9 Installer
Prerequisite: Java
Since OS X 10.7 Java is not (pre-)installed anymore, let’s fix that first. As I’m writing this, Java 11.0.1 is the latest version and AdoptOpenJDK is one of the best places to find Prebuilt OpenJDK Binaries. Easy to follow details about how to install OpenJDK are available here. Anyway, after opening the Terminal app again,
hopefully shows something like this:
Whatever you do, when opening Terminal and running ‘java -version’, you should see something like this, with a version of at least 1.8.x I.e. Tomcat 9.x requires Java 8 or later.
sudo is a program for Unix-like operating systems, allowing you to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root). Since we are creating directories, outside of your home folder, administrator right are required. I.e., when executing sudo you will be asked to enter your password; and your Mac User account needs to be an ‘Admin’ account.
JAVA_HOME is an important environment variable, not just for Tomcat, and it’s important to get it right. Here is a trick that allows me to keep the environment variable current, even after a Java Update was installed. In ~/.bash_profile, I set the variable like so:
Installing Tomcat
Here are the easy to follow steps to get it up and running on your Mac
- Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-9.0.35 from here. I picked the tar.gz in Binary Distributions / Core section.
- Opening/unarchiving the archive will create a new 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-9.0.35 - Open to Terminal app to move the unarchived distribution to /usr/local
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local
sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-9.0.35 /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):
sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat
sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-9.0.35 /Library/Tomcat
- Change ownership of the /Library/Tomcat folder hierarchy:
sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat
- Make all scripts executable:
sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh
Tomcat 9.x
Starting and stoping Tomcat works with executing the provided scripts, like so:
/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
/Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
Finally, after your started Tomcat, open your Mac’s Web browser and take a look at the default page: http://localhost:8080
Please note that you must enable JavaScript if you want larger
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blocks to be highlighted. In this article, I will explain you how to install and run Apache Tomcat on macOS 10.14 Mojave. If you want to read more about Apache Tomcat, you can do so on their website or on Wikipedia.
Prerequisite
Tomcat 9.x requires Java 8 or later.
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You can verify if you have Java and what version, by running the following command in your terminal:
If you do not Java installed, or below version 8, you can use Homebrew to install Java on your Mac, or update to a higher version.
Installing Tomcat: step by step
- Download a binary distribution of the core module
apache-tomcat-9.0.12
from this page in your Downloads folder. For example thetar.gz
under the Core section; - Open/unarchive the archive. Notice that a new folder structure in your Downloads folder is created:
- Open terminal and move the unarchived distribution to
/usr/local
, by running the following commands: - Think ahead! There will be future releases. So we are going to create a symbolic link that will refer to Tomcat, by running the following commands in terminal:
- Change the owner of the
/Library/Tomcat
directory, by running the following command: - Make all scripts executable:
Run Tomcat
Once you have successfully installed Tomcat, you can run it:
By default, you can acces Tomcat in your web by going to
localhost:8080
:You can shutdown Tomcat with: