Problem accessing Tomcat 6 manager and host-manager webapp

[swfchang]

I´ve just installed my Ubuntu 8.10 server with LAMP server and Tomcat. I was able to see the page http://localhost:8080 and when I tried to access http://localhost:8080/manager/html, it asked me for username and password which I have no clue what they were.

After searching on the forum, I followed the instructions to change /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml to add the roles and user as follows (I did not change the commented lines in original file:

<tomcat-users>
<!--
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
<role rolename=¨tomcat¨/>
<role rolename=¨manager"/>
<role rolename=¨admin¨/>
<user username=¨tomcat¨ password=mypassword roles=¨tomcat,admin,manager¨/>
</tomcat-users>

I restarted tomcat using command sudo service tomcat6 restart

But when I tried to access http://localhost:8080/manager/html again, it timed out. After I commented out the lines I´ve added for the roles and users in the tomcat-users.xml file, I can access http://localhost:8080/manager/html again but it asked me for username and password again.

Not sure what else I needed to do to get it working. Appreciate if anyone out there could help.

Thanks a lot!

[raulsan]

I have exactly the same problem,
can anyone help?
thank you

[ghetto2ivy]

Sounds like an error in your xml. See this thread. Try the default one posted and see if it works for you.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=972911&highlight=tomcat6

[HDave]

I went around in circles with this to for a couple of hours and then realized, like the OP, I didn't delete the stupid XML comments that surround the sample roles and users!

[jim.pishlo]

DOH!
I feel like such a noob!
The xml comments!

[cjchand]

Sweet mother of God. Total face-palm there :)

Many thanks, HDave!

[armonr]

Wow, I didn't even notice the comment lines, thanks :)

[belano]

Me neither, thanks for sharing

[Wnutt]

Kind of a stupid pitfall :oops:

Thanks guys...

[bluehue]

I went around in circles with this to for a couple of hours and then realized, like the OP, I didn't delete the stupid XML comments that surround the sample roles and users!
Unbelievable!! You wouldn't believe the things I had tried in 4 hours time to get it running. Thanks Dave! :guitar: