I've installed Tomcat 8 (using brew install tomcat) on Yosemite (Mac OS).
Using ./startup.sh and ./shutdown.sh I can start and and stop Tomcat just fine. When I navigate to http://localhost:8080, I can see the Tomcat homepage.
However, I'm trying to create a basic Hello World servlet in IntelliJ 15 Ultimate version (30 day trial), and have Tomcat home and Tomcat base to : /usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.27/libexec
When I start the application server from within IntelliJ, everything looks ok, the server log says "Connected to Server" and its looking like the following startup command has been executed - /usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.27/libexec/bin/catalina.sh run
I'm not confident everything is hanging together correctly because when I go to localhost:8080 there is no page served. Note at this point the Tomcat instance running from the terminal has been closed..
Any suggestions?