Tomcat 9.x requires Java 8 or later.

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java -version

Installing Tomcat

1. download binary distribution apache-tomcat-9.0.14 from here
2. extract to /usr/local/apache-tomcat-9.0.14

3. remove old link and create new one

   1 2	sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-9.0.14 /Library/Tomcat

4. change ownership and permission

   1 2	sudo chown -R <your_username> /Library/Tomcat sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh

5. start and stop

   1 2	/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh /Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh

browse http://localhost:8080