Install Tomcat with Eclipse

Posted on Tue 19 April 2011 in Development

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

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

Test you tomcat installation via your Browser
```
http://localhost:8080/
```

if everything works like expected shut the tomcat instance down

./shutdown.sh

Now we add Tomcat to our Eclipse environment

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Double click on the server and select "Use Tomcat installation (take control of Tomcat installation)":

[caption id="attachment_575" align="alignleft" width="819" caption="Set tomcat preference to use installation directory parameters"][/caption]

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.