Tomcat did not like the double quotes use by TextEdit.app so I use the ones that were in the commented out section of tomcat-users.xml I was able to authenticate
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-10-02 22:16 GMT+04:00 Gibran Castillo <gibran.e.casti...@gmail.com>: > > I installed Tomcat 8.0.12 in my MacBook OS X 10.9.5 > > here /Library/Tomcat/Home. Home is a symbolic link that will always > point > > to the current version Tomcat directory, in this case > > /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.0.12 > > > > In the /Library/Tomcat/Home/conf/tomcat-users.xml file I added the > > following: > > <role rolename="manager-gui"/> > > <user username=“admin” password="password” roles="manager-gui”/> > > > > When I start tomcat with the out of the box setup everything looks good > > except that is throwing an exception regarding <user > > *username=“admin”* (...) > > The quote character before "a" in "admin" is not the straight quote > character expected in XML files, but left quote character ( ` `) as > inserted by text processors... > > > > > *02-Oct-2014 12:19:44.726 SEVERE [main] > > org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.fatalError Parse Fatal Error at > > line 37 column 18: Open quote is expected for attribute "{1}" associated > > with an element type "username".* > > > > * org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 37; columnNumber: 18; Open > > quote is expected for attribute "{1}" associated with an element type > > "username".* > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Thank you, *Gibran E Castillo* *iOS 7: 434.713.8095*