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Manager does not work on Tomcat 6 but works on v7

I want to use the Tomcat manager with the Maven plug-in but it does not seem to work; I have changed the tomcat-users.xml file to contain:

<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="admin" password="password" roles="admin,manager,manager-gui"/>
</tomcat-users>

When trying to access http://localhost:8080/manager/ I get HTTP Status 404 - /manager// Other applications work; what is interesting is that this only happens on Tomcat 6; on Tomcat 7 the manager works fine (the problem is my project that only works in Tomcat 6).

ROOT and manager folders are present in webapps folder (I have tried with a fresh downloaded Tomcat 6 to make sure they are not corrupted anyhow).

The only thing I haven't done is to set the environment variables for CATALINA_HOME (&others) but I do not believe that this might be an issue.

Solution

  • If you are running Tomcat 6 use:

    http://localhost:8080/manager/html

    More info here.