Setting up the Tomcat Manager Gui Configuring

Products

• Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

How to Bring up the Tomcat Manager Gui

Environment

Apache Tomcat

Resolution

1.  Tomcat must be up and running
2. Edit the tomcat-users.xml file which is in the conf directory under the Tomcat directory
3. Delete the lines with the comments around the last paragraph with the roles
   <!--
    
   -->
4. Add at the bottom after the other roles  (supplying a username and password you created)
   <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
   <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/>
5. Save
6. Restart tomcat
7. Bring up the Tomcat manager at this location and log in using the userid and password
   you added to the tomcat-users.xml.  (In the example above is it tomcat/s3cret)
   
   http://localhost:8080/manager/html
   
   and log in
8. You may want to undo this after you are done with the Tomcat manager as you will not
   need it regularly and leaving that section uncommented may get you tagged with a vulnerability