I just installed tomcat 6 in Debian 6 with the apt-get:
apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-common tomcat6-docs tomcat6-admin tomcat6-user
After that, http://localhost:8080 is accessible without any problems, also the jsp and servlet examples run as expected.
To be able to access the /manager/html area, I edited the file $CATALINA_HOME/skel/conf/tomcat-users.xml, now it looks like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager" />
<role rolename="admin" />
<role rolename="tomcat" />
<user username="tomcat" password="secret" roles="tomcat,admin,manager" />
</tomcat-users>
After that, I restarted tomcat with:
/etc/init.d/tomcat6
When I try to access http://localhost:8080/manager/html and enter "tomcat" : "secret" into the htaccess-box, I get "Access denied". Why this? Is there anything else I have to do?
Best Answer
The role you need to access WEB admin interface is called manager-gui. It is sufficient to add these two lines to /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml (within tomcat-users tag):
and restart the server.