Setup / Install Tomcat 8 on OS X Yosemite

#Download latest tomcat

#Create /usr/local 

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local

#Goto directory to /usr/local

cd /usr/local

#Extract downloaded tomcat from the /usr/local

tar -zxvf ./apache-tomcat-8.0.45.tar.gz 

sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-8.0.45 /Library/Tomcat 

#Remove existing tomcat directory

sudo rm -f /Library/Tomcat

#Create symbolic link for easier access
sudo chown -R  /Library/Tomcat
sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh

#configure gui admin for tomcat via /Library/Tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml include inside 

#Start tomcat from terminal

/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh

#Stop tomcat from terminal

/Library/Tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh