1. Tomcat 7.0 Download
2. How To Download Tomcat Server On Mac Mojave

I found an article on how to install tomcat: Tomcat on a Mac. I got the Tomcat server running to where i can see the default Tomcat Page. Started to dig deeper but hit a huge wall on getting to a point where i could use an IDE to get coding. I downloaded Eclipse for the mac (because it was free and seemed to be the more popular one out there). Apache Tomcat is a free and open source web server specially made to help you deploy and use a reliable Java platform for your web applications. A “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for your Java code. Apache Tomcat implements the Java Servlet along. Installing Tomcat on Mac is quite simple. Download the binaries from the Apache Tomcat website. Download the stable version from the website. There are Alpha, Beta and Stable versions are available on the Tomcat site.

Installing and Running tomcat on MAC OS is very simple and straight forward. Before we begin we need to ensure that Java is installed on our mac. To check for Java installation, open terminal and execute java command. If Java is installed it will display the help else it will display command not found. Java can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html Once the Java is installed, download the apache tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org site, download zip or tar.gz file. Select appropriate vereion, according to jdk / jre version of your system. If any confusion visit http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html for selecting correct version of Apache tomcat. Following are simple steps :
Extract the downloaded zip or tar.gz file.
Extracted folder will show following content

Open tomcat-users.xml file from conf folder in editor. Add following lines
<role rolename=”manager-gui”/>
<role rolename=”admin-gui” />
<user username=”admin” password=”admin” roles=”manger-gui,admin-gui” />
/hp-image-zone-download-mac-os-x.html. Save and Close the file.

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Now its time to start the tomcat server. Open terminal, navigate to bin directory and run following command [To make all scripts executable ]
chmod +x *.sh
Now execute sh startup.sh to start the server [ Shown below ]. It will show a message Tomcat Started.

Open browser [ safari / firefox / chrome ], open localhost:8080

Now click on Manager App button on right side which will ask for username and password. Enter admin as username and admin as password [ We configured the same in tomcat-users.xml] and press ok.

How To Download Tomcat Server On Mac Mojave

You can see all the application and there respective states.