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Breako Breako
Breako Breako

Reputation: 6461

Make it easy to start tomcat instances on Mac

I have two tomcat servers installed, at the locations:

/Users/alexstaveley/developer/servers/apache-tomcat-6.0.37
/Users/alexstaveley/developer/servers/apache-tomcat-7.0.42

To start them, I am opening a terminal CDing the right bin directory and then doing 

sh catalina.sh start

This is getting cumbersome. I'd much prefer to have something on my doc or desktop and then just click the instance I want to start.

Any tips?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 13080

Answers (2)

Dolly Popat
Dolly Popat

Reputation: 11

  • After installing tomcat rename the folder to tomcat and place that tomcat folder under Macintosh HD -> Users -> alexstaveley directory

  • Change the tomcat->bin->startup.sh file, open startup.sh in textedit, add the following 2 lines after EXECUTABLE=catalina.sh line

    export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home
export CATALINA_HOME=/Users/user/Tomcat**

  • Finally to start tomcat, open Mac Terminal

    cd /Users/alexstaveley/tomcat/bin 
sh startup.sh

Upvotes: 1

Olaf Kock
Olaf Kock

Reputation: 48067

If you rename the *.sh files to *.command, you can just doubleclick them (I don't have a Mac to double-check, you might need to chmod +x them).

If you want the shell to open, just create a file startTomcat.command with sh catalina.sh start as its sole content

Upvotes: 3

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