Comments on: Tomcat on Mac OS X Tiger

By: Paul Hewson

Paul Hewson — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:21:28 +0000

There’s similar tutorial for Tomcat 6 at mactekkie.com: http://www.mactekkie.com/tutorials/installingTomcat.php

I think it’s funny that it’s about Tomcat (JAVA) but the tutorial is written in PHP.

By: Kees van Daalen

Kees van Daalen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:53:54 +0000

You need to have the proper permissions for executing the start up scripts, elsewhere i found this:

chmod ugo+x $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/*.sh

Before that i got this error: The BASEDIR environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:52:27 +0000

You can also add a LaunchDaemon in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ that will automatically start Tomcat on boot. I have instructions for this and how to run it behing Apache 2.2.x using mod_proxy on my blog at http://www.latko.org/2009/02/12/installing-tomcat-60x-behind-apache-22x/

By: Marta

Marta — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:32:36 +0000

Thank you very much for your post! you made to install Tomcat in Mac very easy ^^

Regards from Spain

By: John Wylie

John Wylie — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:45:41 +0000

As I am forever repeating the start/stop procedure from the terminal, I made a simple tool that you may find of use, you can download it from here: http://www.activata.co.uk/