Thanks! Mark
David Simmons wrote: > > Hi, > > I just experienced the same problem, found this thread via Google, and > figured I'd post my experience and solution. > > Just like Mark's experience, I installed Tomcat and could not use the > manager app because the browser never presented me a dialog box for the > username and password. Sure enough, an analysis of the HTTP response > headers reveals no "WWW-Authenticate" header, so the browser is not at > fault: > > HTTP/1.1 401 > Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 > Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 > Content-Length: 954 > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 02:56:12 GMT > > ("Apache Tomcat/6.0.14 - Error report" body here...) > > However, I noticed in my catalina.out numerous exceptions where Tomcat > was getting "permission denied" while attempting to write to files. > Sure enough, when I corrected the permissions so that the tomcat user > had write permissions to all relevant directories and files, everything > started working normally. > > I can see how the strange behavior of the manager app could be really > frustrating and not very helpful, but it turned out to be a pretty > mundane problem. > > David > > Mark Riggins wrote: >> Unfortunately, I'm not sure, and I don't know how to recreate the >> problem. >> >> Sorry. >> >> Mark >> >> >> David Smith-2 wrote: >>> I'm just wondering if you got a 401 page, but a 200 status or something >>> like that. Maybe one of your customizations did some filtering and/or >>> proxying and changed the response code. Seems like the most reasonable >>> cause of your problem. >>> >>> --David >>> >>> Mark Riggins wrote: >>> >>>> It turns out that Netbeans likes to use the Tomcat Manager, so I had to >> get >>>> this working. Since others claimed that it worked "out of the box" I >>>> just >>>> uninstalled everything [losing quite a bit of customization] and >>>> did a clean vanilla install. >>>> >>>> Now it works, but I have no idea what caused the problem. This is NOT >>>> A >>>> BROWSER PROBLEM -- I tried two different browsers before, firefox and >>>> IE, >>>> neither worked before, and both work now. I too had added >>>> another user, so perhaps it has something to do with that. >>>> >>>> At this point, I'm just glad its working. Fortunately, at this point, >> I'm >>>> just dorking around, refreshing my tech skills, which have gotten a >>>> little >>>> dusty, so I can easily chuck the whole install and start fresh. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> >>>> wlievens wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Mark Riggins wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Instead of a basic-authentication dialog box, I get the following >>>>>> error >>>>>> message instead. >>>>>> >>>>>> HTTP Status 401 - >>>>>> >>>>>> type Status report >>>>>> >>>>>> message >>>>>> >>>>>> description This request requires HTTP authentication (). >>>>>> Apache Tomcat/6.0.13 >>>>>> >>>>>> My tomcat-users.xml file looks like this: >>>>>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> >>>>>> >>>>>> <tomcat-users> >>>>>> >>>>>> <role rolename="tomcat"/> >>>>>> >>>>>> <role rolename="manager"/> >>>>>> >>>>>> <role rolename="admin"/> >>>>>> >>>>>> <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/> >>>>>> >>>>>> <user username="manager" password="manager" roles="manager"/> >>>>>> >>>>>> <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin"/> >>>>>> >>>>>> </tomcat-users> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >From web.xml I have: >>>>>> <!-- Define the Login Configuration for this Application --> >>>>>> <login-config> >>>>>> <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method> >>>>>> <realm-name>Tomcat Manager Application</realm-name> >>>>>> </login-config> >>>>>> >>>>>> <!-- Security roles referenced by this web application --> >>>>>> <security-role> >>>>>> <description> >>>>>> The role that is required to log in to the Manager Application >>>>>> </description> >>>>>> <role-name>manager</role-name> >>>>>> </security-role> >>>>>> >>>>>> But the dialog NEVER APPEARS. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't get ANT to work >>>>>> without >>>>>> this. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I have the exact same problem. The only thing I changed in my >>>>> configuration was adding a user. I never get the dialog prompt. >>>>> >>>>> I'd really like a solution for this problem. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/No-Authentication-Dialog-appears-for-Tomcat-Manager-tp14780731p15115906.html 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]