You have to edit your <CATALINA_HOME>/conf/tomcat-users.xml so to have an account with manager and admin rights. At least, I'm using it in localhost for training and it works fine.
This is nearly how mine looks like: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="tomcat"/> <role rolename="role1"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <role rolename="admin"/> <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/> <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/> <user username="mario" password="mario" roles="tomcat,manager,admin"/> </tomcat-users>
