could not start bamboo server on Mac
Asked by rlinga:

I installed bamboo 5.12 and JDK 8 and Tomcat 1.8.5 on my Mac.

But I keep getting the following. Tomcat comes up ok but not bamboo server after running start-bamboo.sh.

**localhost** refused to connect. {#toc-hId-1874376169}
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* Search Google for [localhost 8085](https://www.google.com/search?q=localhost%208085)  
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED


Answers:
author: Krystian Brazulewicz
body: @Rama Krishna Linga suggested channel to resolve installation/usage issues is [Atlassian Support](https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/bsp)


author: rlinga
body: Thanks a lot Steven. I followed steps as per documentation. Will go thru the links and provide any other info if I think can help this conversation.


author: Steven F Behnke
body: I can't quite figure it out with that much information. I think the best thing I can do is point you toward the resources avaliable --

* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/installing-bamboo-on-mac-os-x-289276789.html>
* <https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamkb/troubleshooting-installation-216957437.html>

Please also open a ticket with Atlassian since they will support you through this. <https://support.atlassian.com>


author: rlinga
body: Home dir perms:

drwxrwxrwx 2 rlinga staff 68 Aug 12 16:04 bamboo

Rama Tue Aug 16 15:19:37 \~/bamboo_downloads GoAhead\>echo $JAVA_HOME

/usr/

Rama Tue Aug 16 15:20:04 \~/bamboo_downloads GoAhead\>echo $CATALINA_HOME

/Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4

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author: Steven F Behnke
body: If the Home Directory is empty, I find that this usually implies that we haven't set up permissions for the Home Directory OR that we do not have dependencies set up correctly (like JAVA).


author: rlinga
body: Hi Steven,

logs directory is empty and bamboo home directory is empty.

Rama Tue Aug 16 13:39:21 \~/bamboo_downloads/atlassian-bamboo-5.12.3.1/bin GoAhead\>./start-bamboo.sh

To run Bamboo in the foreground, start the server with start-bamboo.sh -fg

Server startup logs are located in /Users/rlinga/bamboo_downloads/atlassian-bamboo-5.12.3.1/bin/logs/catalina.out

Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4

Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/temp

Using JRE_HOME: /usr/

Using CLASSPATH: /Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/bin/bootstrap.[jar:/Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/bin/tomcat-juli.jar](http://jar/Users/rlinga/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/bin/tomcat-juli.jar)

Tomcat started.

Rama Tue Aug 16 13:41:32 \~/bamboo_downloads GoAhead\>ls /Users/rlinga/bamboo_downloads/atlassian-bamboo-5.12.3.1/logs/

Rama Tue Aug 16 13:41:46 \~/bamboo_downloads GoAhead\>ls /Users/rlinga/bamboo

Rama Tue Aug 16 13:41:52 \~/bamboo_downloads GoAhead\>


author: Steven F Behnke
body: This isn't enough information. We need the relevant section of your application logs, preferably the *atlassian-bamboo.log* file located in the `<bamboo-home>/logs/*` folder.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/bamboo/locating-important-directories-and-files-289277247.html#Locatingimportantdirectoriesandfiles-homeBambooserverhomedirectory>


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