Thanks Olaf, Typo in my email. They’re on 8.5.36. I will upgrade them to the latest 8.5.
Tom > On 18 Oct 2019, at 16:45, Olaf Kock <tom...@olafkock.de> wrote: > > > On 18.10.19 17:21, Tom Povey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I’ve been asked to help with an existing Tomcat install which is supporting >> a live website. When it was installed, it did not have the manager app >> added. We want to use the manager app now. >> >> I have copied the manager folder from another Tomcat install (same version >> which is 5.5.36) and updated tomcat-users in the /conf directory but I can’t >> login to the manager gui. I give the username and password for the >> manager-gui role but it just comes back and redisplays the login prompt. > > tomcat-users.xml, as far as I remember, requires restart of the server > to be taken into account. You didn't mention that you did this. Plus, > you only said "updated": By default there's no account in there, I'm > assuming that you "updated" correctly. You might want to post it here > (bar the actual password). > > Plus, your version is 1 day shy of being 7 years old, with the > end-of-life being even a few more days longer in the past (30 Sep 2012) > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-55-eol.html > > It's about time to move on... > > Olaf > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
