Frequently Asked Questions

Again, this depends on the OS:

Windows

There are 3 options on Windows:

1. Via the desktop icon (assuming you selected this option during installation)
2. Via the ‘Start’ menu:
   • All Programs
     • OWASP
       • Zed Attack Proxy
         • ZAP <version>
3. Via the ‘zap.bat’ command line script in the installation directory

Linux

On Linux there’s just a ‘zap.sh’ script in the installation directory, although you can create a desktop icon manually as well.

Mac OS

Generally, most user’s tend to use the Mac OS build, which is a ordinary Mac OS app that can be started as any other app: Double-Click on the app to start it.

If you have installed ZAP in ‘/Applications’ then you can run it from the command line using ‘/Applications/OWASP\ ZAP.app/Contents/Java/zap.sh’

If you have installed ZAP in another directory then change the initial ‘/Applications’ part accordingly.

If you have downloaded the Linux package, which can also be run on Mac OS, you can use the ‘zap.sh’ script, as per linux.