Install Tomcat 6 with Homebrew

gistfile1.sh

cd /usr/local/Library/Formula
git checkout 9e18876 tomcat.rb
brew install tomcat

Awesome. Works like a charm!

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Thank you :) +2

Thanks! I noticed there's a tomcat6 formula now but it points to the wrong download URL's. Bummer!

I think the Tomcat mirrors are broken. I added the following url directly to my formula to bypass the mirrors.

require 'formula'

class Tomcat6 < Formula
  homepage 'http://tomcat.apache.org/'
  url 'http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/v6.0.37/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.37.tar.gz'
  sha1 '722e6e4f35983b28170002d6b89b4915db682db6'

  keg_only "Some scripts that are installed conflict with other software."

  def install
    rm_rf Dir['bin/*.{cmd,bat]}']
    libexec.install Dir['*']
    (libexec+'logs').mkpath
    bin.mkpath
    Dir["#{libexec}/bin/*.sh"].each { |f| ln_s f, bin }
  end

  def caveats; <<-EOS.undent
    Some of the support scripts used by Tomcat have very generic names.
    These are likely to conflict with support scripts used by other Java-based
    server software.

    You can link Tomcat into PATH with:

      brew link tomcat6

    or add #{bin} to your PATH instead.
    EOS
  end
end

Thanks

brew install homebrew/versions/tomcat6

homebrew command changed
brew install tomcat@6