Administration of tomcat server

[palukuri nag]

Hi
I am using tomcat4.x and jdk1.4. As I am unable to login as admin.
After typying the below url
http://localhost ortnumber/manager
I am getting the password window. I am unable to login with any values. so pls help me in this matter so that i can administrate my server.
thanks in advance

[Rene Larsen]

You need to add a user in '<tomcat_root>\conf\tomcat-users.xml' like this:

<user username="[your logon name]" password="[your password]" fullName="[some name]" roles="admin,manager,standard"/>

now you can make a logon by calling 'http://127.0.0.1/admin' and/or 'http://127.0.0.1/manager/html'
Rene
[ November 07, 2002: Message edited by: Rene Larsen ]

[palukuri nag]

Hai rene
I fallowed your instructions. But i am unable to login as admin.
After placing the tag in the tomcat-users.xml
When i am using the following link
http://192.168.100.3:1977/manager
it is not at all prompting for the login window and showing blank page.

[Rene Larsen]

Try the URL in the upper left corner of the tomcat index page
OR
http://192.168.100.3:1977/manager/html

Rene

[Madan, Gopal]

Nag:
When you installed Tomcat, it would have prompted you for an Administrator LoginID & Password. Your inputs are stored in a file called tomcat-users.xml under %CATALINA_HOME%\conf. In case you forgot your adminstrator userid/password, you can always open this ascii file and see it.
Now,
if you just type http://localhost ort/manager, you will be first prompted for the ID/password. Then it response will be blank or FAIL - unknown command.
The correct syntax to use the manager webapplication is

http://{host}:{port}/manager/{command}?{parameters}

.
One of the commands you can use is list.
You can find more about manager webapp in your tomcat documentation..usually %CATALINA-HOME%\docs\tomcat\manager-howto.html.
Hope this helped to solve your issue