Re: changing tomcat-users.xml makes tomcat unresponsive

2010-05-06 Thread paul geer
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

Re: changing tomcat-users.xml makes tomcat unresponsive

2010-05-02 Thread David Smith
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

Re: changing tomcat-users.xml makes tomcat unresponsive

2010-05-02 Thread André Warnier
Hi. I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but I am told it uses the same packages as Debian Linux. In such a case, Tomcat itself, the example apps, and/or the manager applications, may be in 2 or 3 different packages, which you need to each install. Check with "apt-cache search tomcat" to make sure.

Re: changing tomcat-users.xml makes tomcat unresponsive

2010-05-02 Thread Ken Bowen
The standard Tomcat package from apache.org comes with an examples app pre-installed. The various packagers (incl. Ubuntu) mangle Tomcat in a variety of ways. Standard advice on this list for something like your situation seems to be is to first download a clean Tomcat package from apache.org,

Re: changing tomcat-users.xml makes tomcat unresponsive

2010-05-02 Thread paul geer
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 manage

Re: changing tomcat-users.xml makes tomcat unresponsive

2010-05-01 Thread Pid
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 e