Unable to open Tomcat Manager

[sanket wagh]

Hi Everyone,

I have installed tomcat on Linux 5.8 but I am unable to open the Tomcat manager through my browser.I can see it through the elinks utility which is provided by Linux.I have also checked the port defined for Tomcat and its open.
Also the server.xml has the right port defined.
but I am unable to open the Tomcat manager page on my browser.
Kindly provide me your inputs as I need to get it fixed early.

[Tim Holloway]

Welcome to the JavaRanch, Sanket!

You can "see" the manager app, but you cannot "open" it. What does that mean? What response do you get in the web browser?

[K. Gil]

A default Tomcat installation includes the Manager.
Here is an example URL where you can replace localhost with your website host name: http://localhost/manager/html/

Configuring Manager Application Access:
It would be quite unsafe to ship Tomcat with default settings that allowed anyone on the Internet to execute the Manager application on your server. Therefore, the Manager application is shipped with the requirement that anyone who attempts to use it must authenticate themselves, using a username and password that have one of manager-** roles associated with them (the role name depends on what functionality is required). Further, there is no username in the default users file ($CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml) that is assigned to those roles. Therefore, access to the Manager application is completely disabled by default.
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Configuring_Manager_Application_Access

Tomcat Manager is one of default applications, but there's no user with role manager by default in your conf/tomcat-users.xml