Good Day, Just another day in Paradise !My query is as mentioned in the subject.[Unable to access Manager App, Host Manager and Server Status urls], for each of these web applications, I am not challenged to input credentials rather gives directly access denied 403. Nothing interesting in catalina.out 14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.636 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version: Apache Tomcat/8.5.414-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server built: Jul 6 2016 08:43:30 UTC14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server number: 8.5.4.014-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Name: Linux14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log OS Version: 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_6414-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Architecture: amd6414-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Java Home: /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_80/jre14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.637 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Version: 1.7.0_80-b1514-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_BASE: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.414-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log CATALINA_HOME: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.414-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/tomcat/conf/logging.properties14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djdk.tls.ephemeralDHKeySize=204814-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.base=/opt/tomcat14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.home=/opt/tomcat14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.io.tmpdir=/opt/tomcat/temp14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.638 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.807 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.837 INFO [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.845 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-nio-8009"]14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.846 INFO [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioSelectorPool.getSharedSelector Using a shared selector for servlet write/read14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.847 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Initialization processed in 928 ms14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.879 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service Catalina14-Aug-2016 00:14:23.879 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/8.5.414-Aug-2016 00:14:23.896 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/ROOT14-Aug-2016 00:14:55.791 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGeneratorBase.createSecureRandom Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [31,061] milliseconds.14-Aug-2016 00:14:55.862 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/ROOT has finished in 31,966 ms14-Aug-2016 00:14:55.862 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/docs14-Aug-2016 00:14:55.913 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/docs has finished in 51 ms14-Aug-2016 00:14:55.914 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/examples14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.563 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/examples has finished in 649 ms14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.563 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/host-manager14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.627 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/host-manager has finished in 64 ms14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.627 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/manager14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.681 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory /opt/apache-tomcat-8.5.4/webapps/manager has finished in 54 ms14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.695 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler [http-nio-8080]14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.706 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler [ajp-nio-8009]14-Aug-2016 00:14:56.706 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in 32859 ms I have added these three lines in my tomcat-users.xml file: <role rolename="manager-gui"/><role rolename="admin-gui"/> <user username="admin" password="password" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui"/>
Port and firewall configurations looks ok: [root@docker1 conf]# nmap docker1 Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-08-14 00:38 AESTNmap scan report for docker1 (192.168.1.6)Host is up (0.0000050s latency).Not shown: 996 closed portsPORT STATE SERVICE21/tcp open ftp22/tcp open ssh8009/tcp open ajp138080/tcp open http-proxy Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.04 seconds[root@docker1 conf]# firewall-cmd --query-port=8080/tcpyes[root@docker1 conf]# OS Version is Centos 7.2 [root@docker1 conf]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) [root@docker1 conf]# Yes, I am trying to install Apache tomcat 8.5.4 and configured to be listening on port 8080(in server.xml) Shutdown and start up happens pretty smoothly without any issue. I have completely run out of ideas......... Any help would be very much appreciated. Cheers