Autostart TeamCity on Mac

Starting up TeamCity server on Mac is quite similar to starting Tomcat on Mac.

• Install TeamCity and make sure it works if started from command line, with bin/teamcity-server.sh start. We assume that TeamCity is installed in /Library/TeamCity folder

• Create file /Library/LaunchDaemons/jetbrains.teamcity.server.plist with the following content:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
  	<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
  	<string>/Library/TeamCity</string>
  	<key>Debug</key>
  	<false/>
  	<key>Label</key>
  	<string>jetbrains.teamcity.server</string>
  	<key>OnDemand</key>
  	<false/>
  	<key>KeepAlive</key>
  	<true/>
  	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
  	<array>
  		<string>bin/teamcity-server.sh</string>
  		<string>run</string>
  	</array>
  	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
  	<true/>
  	<key>StandardErrorPath</key>
  	<string>logs/launchd.err.log</string>
  	<key>StandardOutPath</key>
  	<string>logs/launchd.out.log</string>
  </dict>
  </plist>

• Test your file by running launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/jetbrains.teamcity.server.plist. This command should start TeamCity server (you can see this from logs/teamcity-server.log and in browser)

• If you don't want TeamCity to start under root permissions, specify UserName key in the plist file, like this: <key>UserName</key> <string>teamcity_user</string>

• That's it. TeamCity now should autostart when machine starts.