Tomcat 8 fails to load Catalina on MacBook Pro 10.9

[Ron White]

Good Day, I almost hit a moose once. Biggest animal I ever saw.

Installed Tomcat 8 (Users/$HOME/tomcat with a symlink from Library/Tomcat) on MBP 10.9, running JDK 1.8 (confirmed $ java -version). Tomcat launches and Catalina is running but localhost:8080 returns 404. Something is not configured correctly or there may be collision on port 8080 ($ natstat -an | grep 8080 return open and listening). Errors thrown in /logs/catalina.out:

 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.WebXmlParser.parseWebXml Occurred at line 251 column 14
 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal Error getConfigured
 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal Context [/docs] startup failed due to previous errors

But the rest seems to load as expected. I get some additional errors when running the configtest. Most output left out for brevity.

$ bin/catalina.sh configtest

 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
 INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path:  /Users/HOME/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.

org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler [“http-nio-8080"] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
SEVERE: Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
java.net.BindException: Address already in use

SEVERE: Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-8080]]
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize component [Connector[HTTP/1.1-8080]]

Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:962)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)

Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:962)

This is repeated for ajp-nio-8009 (shutdown). Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. And know that one more moose lives because I WASN'T texting and driving...

rwhite35

[Ron White]

Turns out Mac (Mavericks or Yosemite) doesn't have ANT installed as part of their distro. Once I downloaded ANT 1.9.4 from the Apache website, then added its path to my .bash_profile, Tomcat started right up and displayed the friendly landing page.
Hope anyone struggling to get Tomcat up and running on MacOS 10.9 or 10.10 finds this helpful.
Regards,
Ron

[Jaikiran Pai]

Ron, welcome to CodeRanch!

Tomcat doesn't require Ant, for it to be functional. The error you posted in your first post says:

org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler [“http-nio-8080"] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
SEVERE: Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
java.net.BindException: Address already in use

which is a sign that some other process is already using that port.

[Ron White]

Hello Jaikiran, Thanks for the clarification. I suppose another library could be used, however, this was the recommended library from Apache Tomcat Step-By-Step guide. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/building.html And MacOS 10.9 or 10.10 definitely did not have that library installed, at least not in any place I could find. Cheers,