Can't get manager to run in Tomcat6; brand new 10.04 Server installation

barywp · 01-25-2011, 04:41 AM

I've just installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server with LAMP. Tomcat6 appears to function properly. BUT, I cannot gain access to the 'manager webapp'. I've updated tomcat-users.xml:

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

<tomcat-users>

<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,manager,admin"/>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager,admin"/>

</tomcat-users>

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but no matter what I use as username/password, I am unable to get in.

What might I be "missing?"

Pls respond to me at: barywp@gmail.com

Thanks!

vigilandy · 01-25-2011, 10:36 PM

So you're getting as far as the login screen for the manager app, right?
The tomcat-users file looks ok to me. Have you restarted tomcat since adding the user roles?

barywp · 01-26-2011, 12:21 AM

I've restarted Tomcat6, restarted Adobe2, rebooted the computer... Nothing helps... When I attempt to access the manager I am presented with the Username/Password screen -- I enter both, but they are NOT accepted... It's as if Tomcat isn't looking at the "users file" at all...

vigilandy · 01-26-2011, 12:47 AM

Well, you can check server.xml to make sure that tomcat-users file is being referenced. You should see something like to following default settings:

Code:

<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
              type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
              description="User database that can be updated and saved"
              factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
              pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />

And the following is from webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml:

Code:

  <resource-env-ref>
    <description>
      Link to the UserDatabase instance from which we request lists of
      defined role names.  Typically, this will be connected to the global
      user database with a ResourceLink element in server.xml or the context
      configuration file for the Manager web application.
    </description>
    <resource-env-ref-name>users</resource-env-ref-name>
    <resource-env-ref-type>
      org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase
    </resource-env-ref-type>
  </resource-env-ref>

So check the UserDatabase references to see how users and roles are being looked up.

Also, did you install tomcat through the package manager, or did you download from the apache website and install it manually? I've found that some distros structure tomcat differently then the apache defaults. So if all else fails, I might just try installing tomcat from the apache tar ball. After wrestling with Fedora's version of tomcat a while back, that's what I did, and I haven't looked back.