Hi, I have configured Tomcat6.0.24 on RHEL6.3 by installing the corresponding rpms.
[root@happy16 /]# rpm -qa | grep tomcat tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch tomcat6-admin-webapps-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch tomcat6-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-45.el6.noarch [root@happy16 /]# My webapps folder looks like this : [root@happy16 /]# cd /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps/ [root@happy16 webapps]# ls -lrt total 3140 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1620499 Mar 5 10:20 httpif.war drwxr-xr-x 4 tomcat tomcat 4096 Mar 5 10:21 httpif drwxrwxr-x 5 root tomcat 4096 Mar 5 23:04 host-manager drwxrwxr-x 5 root tomcat 4096 Mar 5 23:04 manager [root@happy16 webapps]# My tomcat-user.xml looks like this : [root@happy16 webapps]# cd /usr/share/tomcat6/conf/ [root@happy16 conf]# cat tomcat-users.xml <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename="admin-gui"/> <role rolename="manager-script"/> <role rolename="manager-gui"/> <user username="testadmin" password="testadmin" roles="admin-gui"/> <user username="testscript" password="testscript" roles="manager-script"/> <user username="testgui" password="testgui" roles="manager-gui"/> </tomcat-users> [root@happy16 conf]# I'm trying to manage my webapps, like start, stop, deploy and undeploy using http://localhost:8080/manager/html . By command line I tried to do this, the same is below : [root@happy16 conf]# service tomcat6 status tomcat6 (pid 13955) is running... [ OK ] [root@happy16 conf]# wget http://testadmin:testadmin@localhost:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/httpif --2014-03-06 10:35:00-- http://testadmin:*password*@localhost:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/httpif Resolving localhost... ::1, 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|::1|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Connecting to localhost|::1|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Authorization failed. [root@happy16 conf]# wget http://testgui:testgui@localhost:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/httpif --2014-03-06 10:35:14-- http://testgui:*password*@localhost:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/httpif Resolving localhost... ::1, 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|::1|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Connecting to localhost|::1|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2014-03-06 10:35:14 ERROR 403: Forbidden. [root@happy16 conf]# wget http://testscript:testscript@localhost:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/httpif --2014-03-06 10:35:33-- http://testscript:*password*@localhost:8080/manager/html/stop?path=/httpif Resolving localhost... ::1, 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|::1|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Connecting to localhost|::1|:8080... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2014-03-06 10:35:33 ERROR 403: Forbidden. [root@happy16 conf]# For all three username and passwords I get 401 Unauthorised response. Can u please help get through this. Thanks in advance Regards, Ravikiran N
