Install Tomcat¶

Requirements¶

Tip

To check your current Java version, open a Terminal and run java -version.

Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-8.0.26.tar.gz from here.
Move the unarchived distribution to /usr/local.
```
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local
sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-8.0.26 /usr/local
```
Tip

To make it easy to replace this release with future releases, create a symbolic link that you 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-8.0.26 /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
```
Start the Tomcat server.
```
./startup.sh
```
The Tomcat default page appears at http://localhost:7200.
Stop the Tomcat server:
```
./shutdown.sh
```