Note: This post is for new installations. I recommend following my latest tutorial on installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP on macOS using Docker.

While the following tutorial works for macOS Catalina, it has limitations. Now the server should start correctly and the terminal should display a message saying “Tomcat started”.I finally switched to using Docker for local development on macOS. Next run the following command again to start the server. This should have execute permissions for the server to start. If you receive an error saying “command not found” or “cannot start server”, do the following to change the permissions of the catalina.sh file. Next type the following command in order to start the server.

To start the Apache Tomcat server, open a new terminal and change the working directory as follows. The configuration of the Apache Tomcat server is complete. Insert the reloadable=”true” statement inside the context tag. DefaultServletĬhange the /Applications/tomcat/conf/context.xml file (around line 19) as follows. Change the value “false” to “true” in the parameter value under listings (around line 103). In order to enable directory listing the /Applications/tomcat/conf/web.xml file needs to be edited as follows. If not you can change the port number by replacing 8080 as follows in the server.xml file (around Line 69). This can be run on the default port number if no other application is running on this port. The default port number the server runs is 8080. The /Applications/tomcat/conf/server.xml file will be edited to change the port number which runs the apache tomcat server. The following files in the /Applications/tomcat/conf folder will be edited in order to configure the server. Go the Applications folder, and paste the tomcat folder. Rename the folder to “ tomcat” and copy the extracted folder. Tomcat is a Servlet and JSP Server serving Java technologies.ġst Step: Go to ⇒ Download ⇒ Tomcat 7.0 ⇒ 7.0. Apache Tomcat is used to deploy Java Servlets and JSPs. So basically Apache is an HTTP Server, serving HTTP. Apache is the most widely used web server software which is developed and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.

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