Howto install Tomcat with Eclipse IDE on MacOS X.
What we need:
1. Extract Eclipse into your Applicationfolder and Tomcat to your prefered location for example into your home directory.
2. change into the apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin directory and make all .sh files executeable
cd <pathtoyourtomcat>/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/bin chmod +x *.sh
3. test if it starts
./setclasspath.sh ./startup.sh
something like this should appear:
./startup.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: apache-tomcat-6.0.20
Using CATALINA_HOME: apache-tomcat-6.0.20
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: apache-tomcat-6.0.20/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home
4. Test you tomcat installation via your Browser
http://localhost:8080/
if everything works like expected shut the tomcat instance down
./shutdown.sh
5. Now we add Tomcat to our Eclipse environment
Double click on the server and select “Use Tomcat installation (take control of Tomcat installation)”:
6. Modify the tomcat-users.xml file located in /<pathtotomcat>/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/conf directory and add:
<role rolename=”admin”/>
<role rolename=”manager”/>
<user username=”user” password=”password” roles=”admin,manager”/>
with your username and password for administration.
下载最新版本的eclipse, 当前最新版本tomcat为7.04 有可能会报错: