I do a clean install of the tomcat7 folder and rename it to just tomcat, and without changing ANYTHING and without adding any old files yet, I start the tomcat service and try to get to the status page, but this time it won't even let me log into anything at all either, no matter what I try.
This is the tomcat7 fresh download links I used https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.92/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.92-windows-x86.zip https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/appdev/deployment.html I unzip the apache-tomcat-7.0.92-windows-x86.zip <http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.92/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.92-windows-x86.zip> and put it in the root of a custom web app that I have and then I use the service.bat install to trigger the services install, this is on windows server so I start it up in services.msc I can go to localhost fine, but it won't let me login I checked the tomcat user xml file a trillion times to triple check to make sure I have it right, but no matter what, even after multiple restarts, it won't even let me login to the status page!!!!! 401 Unauthorized You are not authorized to view this page. If you have not changed any configuration files, please examine the file conf/tomcat-users.xml in your installation. That file must contain the credentials to let you use this webapp. For example, to add the manager-gui role to a user named tomcat with a password of s3cret, add the following to the config file listed above. <role rolename="manager-gui"/> <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/> Note that for Tomcat 7 onwards, the roles required to use the manager application were changed from the single manager role to the following four roles. You will need to assign the role(s) required for the functionality you wish to access. manager-gui - allows access to the HTML GUI and the status pages manager-script - allows access to the text interface and the status pages manager-jmx - allows access to the JMX proxy and the status pages manager-status - allows access to the status pages only The HTML interface is protected against CSRF but the text and JMX interfaces are not. To maintain the CSRF protection: Users with the manager-gui role should not be granted either the manager-script or manager-jmx roles. If the text or jmx interfaces are accessed through a browser (e.g. for testing since these interfaces are intended for tools not humans) then the browser must be closed afterwards to terminate the session. For more information - please see the Manager App HOW-TO.
