tomcat6 install access to web manager and web admin problem

speedsrfr · 06-23-2009, 09:49 AM

Hi,
Im an average linux user, wanting to install a java based wiki, and learn about a jsp servlet. So I installed tomcat 6
I am running an ubuntu server. Set up java6 and java6 jdk . Tomcat 6 intalled successfully.
However I cant get it to access the web admin or web manager pages. I keep entering the correct username and password but it simply prompts me again over and over.
At the bottom I will include my users xml file.
I have lighttpd installed. I was just wondering if this problem is somehow becuase tomcat prefers apache2. I thought I could install tomcat and use mod_proxy in lighttpd later to redirect to tomcat when I need it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated with fixing this.

Thanks.

tomcat-users.xml file.

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!--
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  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.
-->
<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename "admin"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager,admin"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>

-->
</tomcat-users>

nowonmai · 06-24-2009, 03:27 AM

Can you access Tomcat directly, through port 8080?

speedsrfr · 06-24-2009, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nowonmai

Can you access Tomcat directly, through port 8080?

Yes I can, but when I click the link to the manager or host manager app, I get prompted for a user name and password, which I enter exactly as specified in the tomcat users file, and I just get prompted for it again and again. I am using tomcat6 by the way if it makes a difference somehow.

nowonmai · 06-24-2009, 03:45 AM

You should be able to change the log level to DEBUG, and view the logs, which will be in the default webapp directory somewhere to see what's happening with the login.

Apologies for being so vague, it's been years since I did anything with Tomcat.

EricTRA · 06-24-2009, 03:47 AM

Maybe silly question but after changing the tomcat-users.xml file have you restarted Tomcat?

kirukan · 06-24-2009, 04:06 AM

Quote:

<tomcat-users>

</tomcat-users>

Did you removed the commented lines? ()it means all these lines commented

nowonmai · 06-24-2009, 06:15 AM

^
Well spotted... didn't see those myself

speedsrfr · 06-24-2009, 08:13 AM

Since I dont know XML very well I actually had no idea about those comment symbols. Solved

Thanks very much to everyone.