Download Tomcat Server For Mac

Apache Tomcat is an open source web server by Apache Software Foundation. Apache Tomcat is used to host Java server pages and Java Servlet. Basically its a Java web server. Its a well matured web server and largely used in the industry.

Install on Mac

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Installing Tomcat on Mac is quite simple. Download the binaries from the Apache Tomcat website. Download the stable version from the website. There are Alpha, Beta and Stable versions are available on the Tomcat site. At the time of writing this post Tomcat 8 version is latest and stable one. Download the tar.gz file. And extract on local disk. Before that make sure you have JDK installed on your Mac and Java Home variable is set. Once you extract the files, that is it. You successfully install the Tomcat on your Mac.


Start and Stop Tomcat

To run Tomcat on mac, open the terminal window and goto bin folder of the extracted folder. Than run the following command on the terminal window ./catalina.sh start . If tomcat is successfully installed you will see the message Tomcat Started on the terminal window as you can see in the below screen shot.

Tomcat normally start at port 8080, if this port is not used by any other application. Browse the localhost with the following URL http://localhost:8080/ . And you will see a screen as shown below.

To stop the Tomcat type the following command in terminal window ./catalina.sh stop .

Deploy WAR file

There are two ways to deploy a war file in Tomcat you can use anyone of it.

  1. Hot Deployment: It mean deploy WAR file when server is up and running.
  2. Cold Deployment: It means deploy WAR file when server is not running.

You can copy the war file on the following path of Tomcat /apache-tomcat/webapps . Once the WAR file is copied you will notice it will immediately extracted and a folder with the same name will be created.

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Written by Nam Ha Minh
Last Updated on 05 August 2019 | Print Email
Tomcat is a popular web server and Java servlet container, and Eclipse is the most widely used IDE for Java development. Therefore, these two programs are usually used together in Java EE development. Though Eclipse has great support for working with Tomcat, it does not include this server in its installation package, so we have to add Tomcat manually. In this article, we describe the steps to bring Tomcat to Eclipse IDE.Basically, there are two ways to add an installation of Tomcat in Eclipse:
    • Way #1: You already installed Tomcat on your computer, and just add it in Eclipse.
    • Way #2: There is no Tomcat installation exists, so you can download and install Tomcat from within the IDE.
Now, let’s go through each way in details.

1. Adding an existing installation of Tomcat

In Eclipse IDE, go to menu Window > Preferences. Then expand the Server > Runtime Environments node in the Preferences dialog:Click Add… to add a new server runtime environment. In the New Server Runtime Environment dialog, select Apache > Apache Tomcat v7.0 (the latest version of Tomcat to date) and check the option Create a new local server:Click Next. In the next screen, click the Browse button to specify the existing installation directory of Tomcat on your computer:Click Finish, the selected Tomcat installation is added to the list of server runtime environments, as shown below:Click OK to close the Preferences dialog, the new server runtime is added to the Servers view:You can now drag and drop a project into this server in order to deploy and run the project.NOTE: If you don’t see the Servers view, you can show it by go to the menu Window > Show View > Others…, then look for Servers.

2. Download and install Tomcat within Eclipse

In this way, we can choose to download and install a specific version of Tomcat if one does not exist on local computer. Follow the first two steps as above. Then, instead of specifying an existing installation directory of Tomcat, type the path of the installation directory in the Tomcat installation directory field, and click the Download and Install… button:The Download and Install dialog appears:Make sure the option “I accept the terms of the license agreement” is selected, and click Finish. Then Eclipse asks to select Tomcat installation directory (the specified path is selected by default), click OK.Wait for some minutes while Eclipse is downloading and installing Tomcat (you can notice the progress in Eclipse’s status bar), and then click FinishTomcat.

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Nam Ha Minh is certified Java programmer (SCJP and SCWCD). He started programming with Java in the time of Java 1.4 and has been falling in love with Java since then. Make friend with him on Facebook and watch his Java videos you YouTube.