Hi,
I just experienced the same problem, found this thread via Google, and
figured I'd post my experience and solution.
Just like Mark's experience, I installed Tomcat and could not use the
manager app because the browser never presented me a dialog box for the
username and password. Sure enough, an analysis of the HTTP response
headers reveals no "WWW-Authenticate" header, so the browser is not at
fault:
HTTP/1.1 401
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 954
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:56:12 GMT
("Apache Tomcat/6.0.14 - Error report" body here...)
However, I noticed in my catalina.out numerous exceptions where Tomcat
was getting "permission denied" while attempting to write to files.
Sure enough, when I corrected the permissions so that the tomcat user
had write permissions to all relevant directories and files, everything
started working normally.
I can see how the strange behavior of the manager app could be really
frustrating and not very helpful, but it turned out to be a pretty
mundane problem.
David
Mark Riggins wrote:
Unfortunately, I'm not sure, and I don't know how to recreate the problem.
Sorry.
Mark
David Smith-2 wrote:
I'm just wondering if you got a 401 page, but a 200 status or something
like that. Maybe one of your customizations did some filtering and/or
proxying and changed the response code. Seems like the most reasonable
cause of your problem.
--David
Mark Riggins wrote:
It turns out that Netbeans likes to use the Tomcat Manager, so I had to
get
this working. Since others claimed that it worked "out of the box" I just
uninstalled everything [losing quite a bit of customization] and
did a clean vanilla install.
Now it works, but I have no idea what caused the problem. This is NOT A
BROWSER PROBLEM -- I tried two different browsers before, firefox and IE,
neither worked before, and both work now. I too had added
another user, so perhaps it has something to do with that.
At this point, I'm just glad its working. Fortunately, at this point,
I'm
just dorking around, refreshing my tech skills, which have gotten a little
dusty, so I can easily chuck the whole install and start fresh.
Mark
wlievens wrote:
Mark Riggins wrote:
Instead of a basic-authentication dialog box, I get the following error
message instead.
HTTP Status 401 -
type Status report
message
description This request requires HTTP authentication ().
Apache Tomcat/6.0.13
My tomcat-users.xml file looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="manager" password="manager" roles="manager"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin"/>
</tomcat-users>
>From web.xml I have:
<!-- Define the Login Configuration for this Application -->
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>Tomcat Manager Application</realm-name>
</login-config>
<!-- Security roles referenced by this web application -->
<security-role>
<description>
The role that is required to log in to the Manager Application
</description>
<role-name>manager</role-name>
</security-role>
But the dialog NEVER APPEARS.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't get ANT to work without
this.
I have the exact same problem. The only thing I changed in my
configuration was adding a user. I never get the dialog prompt.
I'd really like a solution for this problem.
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