How to fix issue error=13, Permission denied on macOS

October 29, 2026 10:14 Updated

Problem

When running a Tomcat server configuration in IDEA, an error message is shown:

Error running 'Tomcat 10.1.34'
Cannot run program
"/Users/xxx/Downloads/apache-tomcat-10.1.34/bin/catalina
a.sh" (in directory
"/Users/xxx/Downloads/apache-tomcat-10.1.34/bin"):
error=13, Permission denied

Cause [Optional]

The Tomcat package's execution script catalina.sh doesn't have execution permission on macOS after downloading and unpackaging it.

Resolution

Run the command in the terminal:

cd PATH_OF_TOMCAT/bin
chmod +x ./catalina.sh