I am trying to install the tomcat admin console on version 5.5.25 and am
having a hard
time. I used the following directions from the Tomcat faq as listed
below, you can also link to them using
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-f50555909547d981d0e2b0303236...<http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-f50555909547d981d0e2b030323632b26047013e>
I follow those directions to the letter but still the admin console
does not come up. I just get the message:
"Tomcat's administration web application is no longer installed by
default. Download and install the "admin" package to use it."
Any ideas what the problem is here?
I have looked in the archives and cannot find an answer. BTW this is the
first application I have attempted to install on Tomcat.
DIRECTIONS FROM FAQ
The following refers to a Tomcat 5.5 set up on Windows 2000, so your
path names will be different on *nix platforms. In this example,
Tomcat 5.5.17 in installed in c:\Program Files\Apache Software
Foundation\Tomcat 5.5 (this is my CATALINA_HOME).
1.
Unzip or untar (be careful to use GNU tar) the file containing
the administration web app files (eg. apache-tomcat-5.5.17-admin.zip)
to a temporary directory, eg. c:\temp.
2.
Copy c:\temp\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\conf\Catalina\localhost
\admin.xml to the directory c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation
\Tomcat 5.5\conf\Catalina\localhost.
3.
Copy the entire directory tree c:\temp\apache-
tomcat-5.5.17\server\webapps\admin
to the directory c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat
5.5\server\webapps. This is an overlay, so \server\webapps is just
pointing you to the \server\webapps, and the admin directory with its
contents will be the only thing you see added there.
1. Add a line to your c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation
\Tomcat 5.5\conf\tomcat-users.xml file so that you have a user who has
admin role. For example, add this line just before the last line
(containing </tomcat-users>) of the file:
*
<user username="admin" password="makesomethingup"
roles="admin,manager"/>
2. Restart Tomcat.
3. Now when you visit [WWW] http://localhost:8080/admin you
shouldsee a page that asks for a user name and password. If you still seethe
"no longer loaded" error message in your browser, you must eitherforce a
full reload of the web page (in Firefox, hold down Shift key
while clicking on the Reload button) or just restart your browser
completely.
