I am learning JSP programing which requires Tomcat. I followed some tutorials but failed to install successfully(Probably some step is not clear match to my situation)
Then I found out you can install easily by this command line:
brew install tomcat
It looks install is successful,
My challenge is after install, I don't know where it is on my hard drive. Therefore, can't configure it in IntelliJ.
My question is:
How do I find out where Tomcat is installed by brew on MacOS?
Thanks!
brew ls tomcat
This command will show the directory of brew package.
brew ls tomcat@8 in my case. Therefore, the Tomcat Home: /usr/local/opt/tomcat@8/libexec/In case someone else stumbles upon this: I had to select
/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/<tomcat-version>/libexec
as Tomcat Home in IntelliJ.
Although the answer of cbst is working. I think it is better to choose the dynamic path to tomcat which is located in
/usr/local/opt/tomcat
The configuration that I would suggest is the following two Tomcat application servers:
Name: Tomcat latest
Tomcat Home: /usr/local/opt/tomcat/libexec
Name: Tomcat X.Y
Tomcat Home: /usr/local/opt/[email protected]/libexec
When you upgrade tomcat using
brew upgrade
Your tomcat servers are likely to keep working. If the latest version is a major release your specific version Tomcat X.Y will not work anymore, which is good as you have confidence you are running a correct tomcat version. To keep working with a specific tomcat version use
brew install tomcat@X
/usr/local/opt/tomcat@8/libexec in order to get this to work on intellijIt's very simple:
$ catalina home
And you'll probably get: /usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/<VERSION_NUMBER/libexec if you installed tomcat via homebrew.
You should use:
/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat@8/<tomcat version>/libexec/
find / -name "webapps"
run the above command on your terminal of mac. And during the search, it should list out the path of your tomcat directory. in my case, it was:
/Users/jayantagarwal/Documents/apache-tomcat-9.0.14/webapps
If installed using brew on Mac M1chip the location of tomcat will be
/opt/homebrew/etc/tomcat
/usr/local/Cellar
/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat
brew install tomcatI didcatalina versionand found thatCATALINA_HOMEwas set to/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/<tomcat-version>/libexec.