1. http://www.devx.

com/webdev/Article/16416/0/page/3

2. http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1087957

3. http://www.mkyong.com/tomcat/tomcat-default-administrator-password/

4. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/RUNNING.txt

Step 2: Start the Server

After unzipping the file, navigate to the "bin" directory and start Tomcat by running the
startup.bat file. You must have the JDK installed before you can start Tomcat. The JDK contains
the Java runtime engine. The environment variable JAVA_HOME tells Tomcat where to find
your JDK. You can set this variable from the Control Panel or by modifying the file tomcat.bat
in the bin directory. Simply add a line at the beginning of the file to point to your JDK
installation. For example, if you installed the JDK in the c:\jdk1.2 directory, you would write:
SET JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.2

The other important environment variable is called CLASSPATH. The CLASSPATH variable helps the Java
runtime find various classes needed by an application. Usually, these Java classes are grouped together
in a single JAR (Java Archive) file. Tomcat has several such JAR files that include classes for XML parsing,
Servlets, and the JSP compiler. You can find them in the "lib" directory. Tomcat automatically appends
the location of its jar files to your existing CLASSPATH.

Warning: Sometimes the process of appending the jar file location to your CLASSPATH environment
variable causes the variable size to exceed the maximum allowable size. The tomcat.bat file contains a
description of how to make the appropriate modifications manually.

Another point to consider is that JSP pages must be compiled the very first time someone accesses the
JSP page. This compilation process converts the JSP page into a Servlet. This requires access to the Java
compiler. Tomcat will not be able to call the Java compiler if the directory path to the Java compiler
includes spaces. To avoid the problem, install the JDK in a directory with a name that contains no spaces,
such as JDK1.3.

Figure 2. Tomcat Introduction Page :
You'll see this page if Tomcat has
successfully installed.
After starting Tomcat, open your browser and type the
following URL: http://localhost:8080. Tomcat uses port 8080
by default, so make sure that port is not being used by another
server, such as Internet Information Server (IIS). If there is a
port conflict, you can change Tomcat's default port by
modifying the file server.xml in the conf directory. Search for
the number 8080 in the file and change it to an unused port
number. When Tomcat starts successfully, you will see an
introduction page in your browser similar to Figure 2.
There are two links towards the middle of the page pointing to
Servlet and JSP examples. You should click on a few examples
to make sure everything is working correctly.

Next Page: Step 3: Create Application Directories

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Tomcat5.5 do not enable admin or manager access by default. We have to manully edit tomcat-
users.xml to allow admin access. VI your tomcat-users.xml in tomcat conf folder, content is
something like following

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

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

Tomcat only create a tomcat user for normal access, we have to modify a bit like following

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

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

Question I've been using Tomcat for some time however, i only started to explore
the in-built Manager. I can't seem to get it to work and it produce this error when i
tried to login with my username and password:

HTTP Status 403 - Access to the requested resource has been denied

This is what i have for my tomcat-users.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="role1"/>
<user username="admin" password="secret" roles="manager"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
</tomcat-users>

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it ?

Regards,
Joe

Derived from A question posed by Joe Lee Topics Java:API:JSP:Vendors:Tomcat

Author Joe Lee Created May 25, 2003