Thx everyone for the great replies.
I decided to take Konstantin Kolinko's advice and start a new installation from
scratch using tomcat-8.5.32.
I have had some success, but still can't deploy WARS.
Here is what I did:
== Step 1: Installing Tomcat per se ==
I used the instructions on this page:
https://wolfpaulus.com/mac/tomcat/
* Download the zip file and unzip it on your HD under
/usr/local/apache-tomcat-N.N.N (where N.N.N is the version number).
** Note: In the rest of this document, that directory will be referred to
[CATALINA_HOME].
* Create a symlink /Library/Tomcat to make managing future versions easier:
sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat
sudo ln -s [CATALINA_HOME] /Library/Tomcat
* Change ownership of /Library/Tomcat
sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat
* Make all scripts executable
sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh
* Now, I can start/stop tomcat as follows:
/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
/Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
** IMPORTANT: DON’T RUN THOSE SCRIPTS WITH SUDO!!!
Especially ‘startup.sh’, as this will end up creating a bunch of temporay
dirs and files that will be owned by ROOT, and cannot be written unless you
start Tomcat as ROOT.
* Test the installation by:
** Starting Tomcat with startup.sh
** Pointing my browser at http://localhost:8080/.
** I see the Tomcat home page no problem
== Step 2: Configuring the Tomcat Manager Apps ==
* Edit the file /Library/Tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml, and add the following
lines inside the <tomcat-users> tag pair:
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="admin" password="PASSWORD"
roles="admin-gui,manager-gui"/>
* Shutdown and re-start Tomcat
* At this point, I can click on any of the following buttons: 'Server Status',
'Manager' App, 'Host Manager' and once I enter the user and passwords I
specified in <tomcat-users>, I get to see the corresponding page.
** On 'Manager App', I was able to start, stop, re-deploy EXISTING apps.
** BUT....
*** When I tried to deploy a new WAR file, I got:
This site can’t be reached
The connection was reset.
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_RESET
After a bit of reading, it seems that this is because the WAR file I was
deploying was larger than the maximum size allowed. I fixed that by editing
/Library/Tomcat/webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml, and changing the size in the
following tags:
<multipart-config>
<max-file-size>50000000 </max-file-size>
<max-request-size>50000000 </max-request-size>
<file-size-threshold>0</file-size-threshold>
</multipart-config>
And now, all seem to work fine.
Again, thanks to everyone who pitched in with some advice. It was really
helpful.
Alain
