How to find out which folder Tomcat is installed by brew on MacOS?

I am learning JSP programing which requires Tomcat. I followed some tutorials but failed to install successfully(Probably some step is not clear match to my situation)

Then I found out you can install easily by this command line:

brew install tomcat

It looks install is successful,

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My challenge is after install, I don't know where it is on my hard drive. Therefore, can't configure it in IntelliJ.

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My question is:

How do I find out where Tomcat is installed by brew on MacOS?

Thanks!

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brew ls tomcat

This command will show the directory of brew package.

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In case someone else stumbles upon this: I had to select 

/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/<tomcat-version>/libexec

as Tomcat Home in IntelliJ.

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Although the answer of cbst is working. I think it is better to choose the dynamic path to tomcat which is located in 

/usr/local/opt/tomcat

The configuration that I would suggest is the following two Tomcat application servers:

Configuration

Application Server 01

Name: Tomcat latest
Tomcat Home: /usr/local/opt/tomcat/libexec

Application Server 02

Name: Tomcat X.Y
Tomcat Home: /usr/local/opt/tomcat@X.Y/libexec

Advantage

When you upgrade tomcat using

brew upgrade

Your tomcat servers are likely to keep working. If the latest version is a major release your specific version Tomcat X.Y will not work anymore, which is good as you have confidence you are running a correct tomcat version. To keep working with a specific tomcat version use

brew install tomcat@X
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You should use:

/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat@8/<tomcat version>/libexec/
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find / -name "webapps"

run the above command on your terminal of mac. And during the search, it should list out the path of your tomcat directory. in my case, it was:

/Users/jayantagarwal/Documents/apache-tomcat-9.0.14/webapps

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It's very simple:

$ catalina home

And you'll probably get: /usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/<VERSION_NUMBER/libexec if you installed tomcat via homebrew.

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The libraries, tools which are installed through brew.sh are stored in

/usr/local/Cellar
  • in your case you can find tomcat in:
/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat

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