You might want to check the file permissions before and after you edit it. Something about this smells like a permissions issue. I have a Ubuntu 9.10 installed tomcat and it works perfect. Admittedly I didn't upgrade from 8.4 but w/ editing tomcat-user.xml being the only change, there are only a couple of things to cause your issue:
1. File permissions changed 2. The edited xml file doesn't validate as xml. There are a number of xml editors out that can also validate. --David On 5/2/2010 1:37 PM, paul geer wrote: > Thank you for the reply. Do you mean the original installation of ubuntu or > tomcat? I restored the tomcat settings back to the original state, but > cannot see that an examples app is pre-installed. If it's something I need > to deploy myself, I'm not sure how to do that without access to the > management console. > > If you meant the original 8.4 ubuntu, I was hoping to try other solutions > before doing that. I'm completely willing to, as I'm not attached to > anything I've done, but since it's inconvenient I would rather wait. > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > > >> On 01/05/2010 18:19, paul geer wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I had an installation of ubuntu 8.04 that I recently upgraded to 9.10. I >>> barely used it before the upgrade so the system was very close to a fresh >>> install of 8.04 before the upgrade. >>> >>> I installed tomcat6 with apt-get. After setting everything up, I checked >>> that I could access the "It works" default page from both inside my home >>> network and would accept outside connections. Clicking the link for the >>> manager console prompted me for a username and password, but since I had >>> >> not >> >>> yet made changes to tomcat-users.xml, it failed as expected. >>> >>> I edited the file (/etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml), uncommented the >>> "existing" users and added a manager role and a manager user with that >>> role. Upon restarting the server, any attempt to connect to the server >>> locally or externally causes the browser to "spin" as if loading a page >>> >> but >> >>> with no results. I will sit and spin for hours if I let it (I have) >>> >> without >> >>> timing out. >>> >>> I have tried various permutations of users in the file, such as >>> >> uncommenting >> >>> the original ones and not adding a manager role or user, adding the role >>> >> to >> >>> one of the default users, etc, but the only way to get the index page to >>> actually load again is to comment out all users. >>> >>> Web searches of this issue have only turned up instances of people not >>> realizing the users were commented out and editing the file anyway. >>> >>> Also, /var/logs/tomcat6 does not contain any logs. I've used updatedb and >>> locate to verify that there aren't other tomcat-users files elsewhere. >>> >> I've >> >>> also been unable to locate an alternate log directory. >>> >>> Thanks for any help the community can offer. Enjoy your weekend, >>> >> If you revert to the original installation, does the /examples app work? >> >> Does using the examples app generate log files in the expected location? >> >> >> p >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
