install tomcat 7 on mac

Tomcat 7 is the first Apache Tomcat release to support the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and EL 2.2 specifications. Please note that Tomcat 7 requires Java 1.6 or better, but that shouldn’t be a problem, if you are running OS X 10.5 or 10.6.

On OS X 10.7 (Lion) however, Java is initially not installed anymore. You can find the installer on Apple’s support side

here or follow this installation  guide, provided by Adobe. Whatever you do, when opening Terminal and running java -version, you should see something like this.

java version "1.6.0_31"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04-415-11M3646)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01-415, mixed mode)

Here are the easy to follow steps to get it up and running on your Mac

1. Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-7.0.27.tar.gz from here. I picked the tar.gz in Binary Distributions / Core section.
2. Opening/unarchiving the archive will create a folder structure something like this in you Downloads folder: (btw, this Unarchiver app is perfect for all kinds of compressed files and superior to the built-in Archive Utility.app)
   ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.27
3. Move the unarchived distribution to /usr/local
   sudo mkdir /usr/local
sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.27 /usr/local
4. To make it easy to replace this release with future releases, we are going to create a symbolic link that we are going to use when referring to Tomcat:
   sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.27 /Library/Tomcat
5. Change ownership of the /Libaray/Tomcat folder hierarchy:
   sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat
6. Make all scripts executable:
   sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh
7. sudo chmod 755 /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.bat 

8. 遇见”JAVA_HOME not defined”JAVA路径未定义错误，在终端中执行以下命令： 

sudo setenv JAVA_HOME /Library/Java/Home 


9. 配置Tomcat启动脚本： 

使用文本编辑器添加以下代码： 

#!/bin/bash 

case $1 in 
start) 
sh /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh 
;; 
stop) 
sh /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh 
;; 
restart) 
sh /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh 
sh /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh 
;; 
*) 
echo “Usage: start|stop|restart” 
;; 
esac 

exit 0 

将文件保存为tomcat，小写并不带后缀。将这个文件放置到终端包含的路径中，例如/usr/bin，而后便可以在终端中简单地输入tomcat start和tomcat stop启用tomcat了。