I have installed apache-tomcat-5.5.20.zip ... into c:\apache-tomcat-5.5.20
I also installed apache-tomcat-5.5.20-admin.zip. Then in two admin.xml files .. conf\Catalina\localhost\admin.xml and server\webapps\admin\admin.xml .. valves were uncommented to allow access to "localhost". <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="localhost"/> Launching tomcat from home page .. JSP and Servlet Examples work o.k. .. but Status, Tomcat Administration and Tomcat Manager links do not work. HTTP Status 403 reports as below . ____________________________________ http://localhost:8080/manager/status description: Access to the specified resource (Access to the requested resource has been denied) has been forbidden. ____________________________________ http://localhost:8080/admin/ description: Access to the specified resource () has been forbidden. ____________________________________ http://localhost:8080/manager/html description: Access to the specified resource (Access to the requested resource has been denied) has been forbidden. ____________________________________ tomcat-users.xml appears to have access rights setup as per manual. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="tomcat"/> <role rolename="role1"/> <role rolename="manager"/> <role rolename="admin"/> <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/> <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/> <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/> <user username="manager" password="xxxyyyzzz" roles="manager"/> <user username="admin" password="xxxyyyzzz" roles="tomcat,manager,admin"/> </tomcat-users> ____________________________________ ____________________________________ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-Status%2C-Administration-and-Manager-not-working-tf2891579.html#a8078324 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]