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Tomcat Unable to Enter Manager App

I know similar questions have been asked before but I couldn't find a situation that people were running into that was the same as mine.

Currently my tomcat-users.xml is as follows:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
    <tomcat-users>
        <user name="tomcat" password="tomcat" role="standard,manager"></user>
    </tomcat-users>

However when I select Manager App instead of asking me for a username and password I am immediately directed to the error 403 page.

I have been programming in java for a long time however this is really new to me. If you are able to help out that would be amazing.

Thanks so much.

Solution

  • You must use the manager-gui which is provided default for tomcat to access manager app

    <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="your-username" password="password" roles="manager-gui"/>