The specified Server Location (Catalina Home) folder is not valid. Tomcat 9 with Netbeans 8.1

Question

I cant add tomcat server in netbeans. I'm using:

• Mac OS El Capitan
• Tomcat 9.0.0.M6
• Netbeans 8.1

I tried with this accepted solution but didn't help either

Answer 1

Try the following command which I just used to setup my Tomcat 9.0.0.M9 with Netbeans 8.1 under osx

I renamed the download file 'apache-tomcat-9.0.0.M9' as 'tomcat-9.0' and put it under /Applications. So the path is /Applications/tomcat-9.0. Then the commands should be:

cd /Applications

sudo mkdir tomcat-9.0/common

ln -sf /Applications/tomcat-9.0/lib /Applications/tomcat-9.0/common/lib

Then you choose /Applications/tomcat-9.0 as Catalina home in your Netbeans and it should work.