Hello all,
Can somebody PLEASE help me? !?! I am running Tomcat 5.5.27 on Windows Vista and am in hell.
I have copied files to an admin directory under webapps. admin.xml is under conf\Catalina\localhost and I have uncommented out the Valve to allow only localhost access.
When I go to localhost:8080 and click on admin I just get 404 Requested resource is not available.
Here is the contents of the admin directory under webapps.
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\admin.css
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\admin.xml
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\tree-control-test.css
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\BlueTile.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Connector.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Context.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Datasource.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\DefaultContext.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\EnvironmentEntries.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\folder_16_pad.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Groups.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\handledownlast.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\handledownmiddle.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\handlerightlast.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\handlerightmiddle.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Host.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\linelastnode.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\linemiddlenode.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\linevertical.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Logger.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Login.jpg
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\LoginBackgroundTile.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Mailsession.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\PaperTexture.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Realm.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\ResourceLink.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Roles.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Server.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Service.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Thumbs.db
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\TomcatBanner.jpg
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Users.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\images\Valve.gif
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\controls.tld
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\struts-bean.tld
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\struts-config.xml
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\struts-html.tld
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\struts-logic.tld
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\struts-nested.tld
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\struts-tiles.tld
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\web.xml
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib\catalina-admin.jar
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib\commons-beanutils.jar
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib\commons-collections.jar
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib\commons-digester-1.8.jar
C:\Tomcat5.5\webapps\admin\WEB-INF\lib\struts.jar
When I view localhost:8080/manager/html, the admin application does not show a display name.
What else do I need to do? I even tried packaging these files as a war but Tomcat will not deploy it. The Pro Jakarta Tomcat 5 book is useless.
I am at my wit's end. Please help!
I did find this old
thread:
https://coderanch.com/t/85162/Tomcat/Tomcat-Admin-Application
But I am not getting this error, I am specifically getting a 404 error, resource not available.