Hi Mark,
That solved my problem, thanks so much for your help!
Nick Klose
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 21/07/2016 18:07, Nick Klose wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > I only need access from one remote machine, but I couldn't get a valve
> > working properly for the IP I'm connecting from so I decided to open
> access
> > from anywhere until I get the Manager App working.
> >
> > The file's at at /opt/tomcat8-dev/conf/context.xml. I've not made any
> > changes to server.xml.
>
> That is the default context.xml that applies to every web application.
> You should be editing the Manager context.xml file that will be in
> webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml
>
> Don't forget to restore conf/content.xml to its original form.
>
> Mark
>
> >
> > I tried modifying context.xml to look like this, but nothing seems to
> have
> > changed:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <Context>
> >
> > <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
> >
> >
> > <WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>
> > <Manager pathname="" />
> > </Context>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nick Klose
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 20/07/2016 23:11, Nick Klose wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I have recently set up Tomcat 8.5.4 on Ubuntu 14.04. I have the default
> >>> page showing on port 8080, but when I click on the Manager App button I
> >>> immediately get "403 Access Denied" and am not prompted to enter a
> >> username
> >>> or password. I have set up roles and a user in conf/tomcat-users.xml in
> >> my
> >>> Tomcat install directory (which I have named /opt/tomcat8-dev). Here's
> >> what
> >>> that file looks like:
> >>>
> >>> <tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml";
> >>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> >>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd"
> >>> version="1.0">
> >>> <role rolename="admin"/>
> >>> <role rolename="admin-gui"/>
> >>> <role rolename="manager"/>
> >>> <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
> >>>
> >>> <user username="admin" password="[redacted]"
> >>> roles="admin,admin-gui,manager,manager-gui"/>
> >>> </tomcat-users>
> >>>
> >>> The server I'm running it on is a remote VM without a window manager,
> >>> however I installed elinks (a command-line web browser) and tested the
> >>> Manager App and it worked fine there; I was asked for credentials, and
> >> was
> >>> able to view the app using the username/password I specified. However,
> >> this
> >>> is obviously not an ideal solution.
> >>>
> >>> I have tried modifying context.xml as specified in the documentation. I
> >>> have enabled privileged mode and added a valve allowing any IP to
> connect
> >>> (specified using a regex). Here's what my context.xml file looks like
> >>> currently:
> >>>
> >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >>> <Context privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> >>> docBase="${catalina.home}/webapps/manager">
> >>>
> >>> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
> >> allow="^.*$"
> >>> />
> >>>
> >>> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>
> >>> <Manager pathname="" />
> >>> </Context>
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions for how I can fix this issue?
> >>
> >> If you want to allow access from everywhere (not recommended) just
> >> remove / comment out the Valve.
> >>
> >> Where is the context.xml file located?
> >>
> >> Unless you have changed the default settings in server.xml for the
> >> default Host, you should not need to specify a docBase in context.xml.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
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