Tomcat Setup for Front End Debugging

(https://wolfpaulus.com/mac/tomcat/)

• java -version

java version "1.8.0_144"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_144-b01)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.144-b01, mixed mode)

• setting JAVA_HOME on mac: https://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-set-java_home-environment-variable-on-mac-os-x/
• Download tomcat: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi
• Unzip it
• sudo mkdir -p /usr/local
• sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-9.0.1 /usr/local
• sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat
• sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-9.0.1 /Library/Tomcat
• sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat

id -un // Do this to get your username. For me it was Sharan
sudo chown -R Sharan /Library/Tomcat

• sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh

For starting and stopping tomcat

• /Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
• /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

For running an web page inside TomCat

1. In /usr/local/apache-tomcat-9.0.7/webapps create a project folder. Call it MyApp for example

engr2-3-183-dhcp:MyApp Sharan$ ls
3.html	us.json
engr2-3-183-dhcp:MyApp Sharan$ 

2. Rename the html file to index.html

3. Start Tomcat

4. http://localhost:8080/MyApp/