Install Tomcat on Mac

1. Install jdk

2. Download Tomcat

Path: http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi 

The first zip is preferred

3. Unzip and store in any directory

4. Start Tomcat

• open terminal 
  
• cd to the directory where the tomcat bin is located 
  cd /Users/hrh/Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M17\ 2/bin
  
• Enter sudo sh startup.sh to start
  successfully
  

  Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Users/huruihua/Library/Tomcat

  Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Users/huruihua/Library/Tomcat

  Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/huruihua/Library/Tomcat/temp

  Using JRE_HOME:        /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_111.jdk/Contents/Home

  Using CLASSPATH:       /Users/huruihua/Library/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/huruihua/Library/Tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar

  Tomcat started.

• Access with a browser: http://localhost:8080/

• Failure cases and solutions
  The following prompt appears after entering sudo sh startup.sh
  

  Cannot find ./catalina.sh

  The file is absent or does not have execute permission

  This file is needed to run this
  
  program

  Execute this command
  chmod +x *.sh   in the bin directory of tomcat and
  execute sh catalina.sh again to pass,

  Then use sh startup.sh to start successfully

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