Setup Apache Tomcat 8 on OS X Mavericks

# Prerequisite - Java installed
# Download Tomcat from tomcat.apache.org e.g. apache-tomcat-8.0.9.tar.gz

# Proceed to target installation directory
cd /usr/local

# Extract
tar -xzvf apache-tomcat-8.0.9.tar.gz

# Symlink shortname
ln -s apache-tomcat-8.0.9.tar.gz tomcat8

# Setup environment
vi setenv.sh

# Include CATALINA_HOME and JRE_HOME

# Add user
vi /usr/local/tomcat8/conf/tomcat-users.xml

# Include all roles (no need to create roles in the tomcat-users.xml )


# Start Tomcat
./startup.sh

# Stop Tomcat
./shutdown.sh