Tomcat 6 Invalid UserName and Password Unauthorized

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Hi ,

I have installed Tomcat 6 .
when i am accessing the server using http:localhost:8080

Its asking for username and password (When i used tomcat , tomcat , admin , admin ) combinations .An anauthorized message is displayed .

So i edited tomcat-users and added

<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="test" password="test" roles="manager"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
</tomcat-users>

and restarted , but stull its not working .

Please help .

[Travis Hein]

so, if you want to get into the tomcat, manager, localhost:8080/manager/html

the user you use needs to be in the "manager" role

and to get into the /admin area the user needs to be in the "admin" role

so this example makes the tomcat user be both manager and admin roles

<tomcat-users>  
  <role rolename="manager"/>  
  <role rolename="admin"/>  
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager,admin"/>  
</tomcat-users>  

I'm pretty sure the roles "tomcat" and "role1" are examples and useless in practice.

hmm, though the way you had it the test user should have been able to get into the /manager/html area. (but wouldn't have been able to get into the admin area)

[Misha Ver]

Ravi Kiran V wrote:
I have installed Tomcat 6 .
when i am accessing the server using http:localhost:8080

Its asking for username and password (When i used tomcat , tomcat , admin , admin ) combinations .An anauthorized message is displayed .

You did something wrong. http://localhost:8080/ should display Tomcat welcome page. Where did you get Tomcat 6?

[Ravi Kiran Va]

sorry its my mistake.

I found that on 8080 port some other application is running .

So i installed tomcat on 8081 . Now everything is fine .