Igor Cicimov wrote > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:17 AM, kl2eativ <kl2eativ@> wrote: > >> Hello. I am having problems trying to authenticate my tomcat 7 manager >> app. I >> keep getting a 401 Unauthorized page. My config is as follows: >> tomcat-users.xml (Located in /etc/tomcat5) >> [code] >> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> >> <tomcat-users> >> <role rolename="manager-gui"/> >> <user username="manager" password="tomcat" roles="manager-gui" /> >> </tomcat-users> >> [/code] >> >> server.xml (Located in /etc/tomcat5) >> [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="etc/tomcat5/tomcat-users.xml" /> >> [/code] >> >> I restart the tomcat service ( #service tomcat restart ) , but still >> cannot >> authenticate. Your help would be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://tomcat.10.n6.nabble.com/Tomcat-7-Manager-App-Authentication-failure-tp4983418.html >> Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@.apache >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@.apache >> >> > > First check the security-constraint in the manager app and make sure that > the manager-gui role is allowed access. > > Second, are you trying to access from localhost or remote host? > > Igor >
Thank you for your response. I am not sure what you mean with the first question. As for the second one I access it locally via mydomainname:8080, Then the tomcat pages loads and to the top right corner I have the three options, Server Status, Manager App and Host Manager. -- View this message in context: http://tomcat.10.n6.nabble.com/Tomcat-7-Manager-App-Authentication-failure-tp4983418p4983477.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org