Tomcat not starting up on MacOS X

[Aditya pratap Singh ji]

Hello,
I just downloaded the zip file of Tomcat 8.0.14. But I am not able to start it.
I have setup my $CATALINA_HOME environment variable to /Library/Java/Tomcat and then tried to invoke startup.sh file like this:
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
this is what I got:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Library/Java/Tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Library/Java/Tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Library/Java/Tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Using CLASSPATH:       /Library/Java/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Library/Java/Tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Tomcat started.

This shows that Tomcat has started. But when I try to open http://localhost:8080 on all my browsers(chrome, mozilla, safari, opera and my personally made JavaFX browser), they complain that the page was not found.

When I try to shutdown Tomcat as:
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh

It gives me this output:

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /Library/Java/Tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /Library/Java/Tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Library/Java/Tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Using CLASSPATH:       /Library/Java/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Library/Java/Tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
/Library/Java/Tomcat/bin/catalina.sh: line 451: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java: No such file or directory

It says, "java: No such file or directory".

Whats is wrong with this? Am I missing something? This never happened on my windows PC I had an year ago. Please Help.

My JDK version - JDK 1.8

[Tim Holloway]

That's an awfully strange setting for JAVA_HOME.

You SHOULD be able to issue the command:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

from your command line and see Java run. If not, then it's definitely not the right value.

I'd actually expect something like:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk

for JAVA_HOME.

[Mary Taylor]

You're almost there on the JAVA_HOME; but you want to look in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines. I just read this path is deprecated so I'm not sure what the current information really is.

Take a look at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6614380/jdk-on-osx-10-7-lion

It is confusing; but there is some information there that could be helpful.