According to the documentation this is by design, since the tomcat5.5 user does not have the necessary privileges to make the changes:
/usr/share/doc/tomcat5.5/README.Debian There is a webapp for basic web-based administration of Tomcat's webapps in the tomcat5.5-admin package. You need to add one of the users in /etc/tomcat5.5/tomcat-users.xml to the manager role and probably set a better password. The "Web Application Manager" can then be accessed at http://localhost:8180/manager/html. There's also a more sophisticated administration webapp called "admin" in the same package but it can't make permanent changes to the configuration since the tomcat5.5 user does not have permission to do this in the default configuration. -- Creating a new context using the /admin interface does not commit changes. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220871 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
