Tomcat on OS X

September 29, 2006 in Java, OS X

This site is great, but here it additional info ..

We are up to 5.5.x now … download here. Get the Core version and grab the .tar.gz version.

sudo mv apache-tomcat-5.5.20.tar.gz /usr/local/
cd /usr/local
sudo gnutar -xzvf apache-tomcat-5.5.20.tar.gz


I like to create a symbolic link so we can refer to it in /usr/local/tomcat instead of /usr/local/apache-tomcat-5.5.20

sudo ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.20 tomcat


And finally I change the owner … just like the Apple Developer site says to do … (my username here is: nibby)

sudo chown -R nibby:staff apache-tomcat-5.5.20
sudo chown -R nibby:staff tomcat