I observed that there is no full guide for installing tomcat on OS X that will include setting it up to start at boot time.
Here is the quick guide:
- install macports
suport port upgrade
sudo port upgrade outdated
.
sudo port install tomcat6
, or if you want other version checkport list|grep tomcat
- config is now at:
/opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf
startup script:
/opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/bin/tomcatctl
cp /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml.sample /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml nano /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml
... check article
But I'm missing the part on how to make it run as true service/daemon: at system startup and optionally to make it restart if it does crash.