thanks everyone for the responses. Unrelated hardware issues necessitated a reinstall, so I did a fresh install of 10.04. this time I used apt-get to install more packages (user, admin, example, etc) and everything is working as expected. I suspect my original problem was probably due to missing packages, but we'll never know.
thanks again. On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:15 PM, David Smith <david.sm...@cornell.edu> wrote: > 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 > >
