Ta very much for your response. I very stupidly did not think to stop and restart Tomcat.
I have now got into the Manager application. I now have to read up and understand how to use it. My very best regards, Pete awarnier wrote: > > BoyePeter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for the reply and have just tried your suggestion. >> >> A dialogue box has appeared asking for a user name and password and >> saying >> that the server localhost at Tomcat Manager Application requires a >> username >> and password. >> >> I did set up a user name and password for Tomcat and so assume that this >> has >> been set by the Tomcat developers at Apache. >> > I believe that you are confusing two things : the username and password > under which Tomcat itself runs, and the username/password that Tomcat > uses to protect access to the Manager application. > For this second one, look in the (tomcat-dir)/conf/tomcat-users.xml file. > If they are not there yet, add the following lines : > > <role rolename="manager"/> > <user username="theBossHere" password="qwerty" roles="manager"/> > > then restart Tomcat. > Close and re-open the browser, call the Manager page again, and use the > above userid/password to login. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HTTP-400-Error-when-trying-to-check-Tomcat-installation-tp20953242p20955566.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
