Installing Tomcat

InstallTomcat

Here are the easy to follow steps to get it up and running on your Mac

Download a binary distribution of the core module: apache-tomcat-7.0.47.tar.gz from here. I picked the tar.gz in Binary Distributions / Core section.
Opening/unarchiving the archive will create a folder structure in your Downloads folder: (btw, this free Unarchiver app is perfect for all kinds of compressed files and superior to the built-in Archive Utility.app)
       ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.47
       
Open to Terminal app to move the unarchived distribution to /usr/local
       sudo mkdir -p /usr/local
       sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.47 /usr/local

To make it easy to replace this release with future releases, we are going to create a symbolic link that we are going to use when referring to Tomcat (after removing the old link, you might have from installing a previous version):
      sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat
      sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.47 /Library/Tomcat

Change ownership of the /Library/Tomcat folder hierarchy:
      sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat

Make all scripts executable:
      sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh