Tomcat6 Administration Issue

[falcon1620]

Hey I was wondering if some one would help me out, I am running Tomcat 6 server on Fedora 13, I set up Tomcat Users, and when I go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/manage/html/ there files are not found despite installing tomcat6-admin-webapps and tomcat-webapps. (I get an error 404 not found) However everything else seems to work fine. for some reason I can not seem to find the management utilities needed to configure my Tomcat server. Any Ideas about why those are missing?

Now when I install and configure Tomcat5 on my server I CAN access the administration utilities and successfully log in. Notice that the Tomcat 6 configuration is a little different but I tried the syntax for the tomcat6-users.xml file in the /etc/confg/ file/ also tried the tomcat 5 config file, but It dosn't seem to be an issue with Tomcat users... Seems to just be a missing webapps utility. However I can find the source for the web apps under /usr/share/tomcat6/(webapps?)/... I need Tomcat 6 though for my application I am messing with on here

Thanks! :-D

(sorry if this is a re-post my original post seems to have disappeared but I could have just forgotten to submit it its been one of those weeks... )

[tomwre]

http://127.0.0.1:8080/manage/html/ ???

try http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/html/ ?

[falcon1620]

Oh sorry yes, that's what I meant to type. I was going by memory. I used the link directly from the Tomcat6 server off of the default page.
This is what you get..

The entire manager file is missing...



Here is my /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml

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

<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="tomcat,admin,manager"/>

<!-- The host manager webapp is restricted to users with role "admin" -->
<!--<user name="tomcat" password="password" roles="admin" />-->
<!-- The manager webapp is restricted to users with role "manager" -->
<!--<user name="tomcat" password="password" roles="manager" />-->
</tomcat-users>
~

however if you view the files located at /usr/share/tomcat6/webapps there is the manager files installed at that location.

[root@fedora1525 tomcat6]# cd webapps/
[root@fedora1525 webapps]# ls
docs examples host-manager manager ROOT sample
[root@fedora1525 webapps]# ls manager
401.jsp images META-INF sessionDetail.jsp sessionsList.jsp status.xsd WEB-INF xform.xsl
[root@fedora1525 webapps]#

[falcon1620]

I found a missing file in /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml

copying from Tomcat 5 I added it in as:

<Context path="/manager" debug="0" privileged="true"
docBase="/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/manager">
</Context>

and restarted the service
Problem solved.

I don't think that I have ever had a Tomcat Installation missing this though...

[MSK61]

Originally Posted by falcon1620

I found a missing file in /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml

copying from Tomcat 5 I added it in as:

<Context path="/manager" debug="0" privileged="true"
docBase="/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/manager">
</Context>

and restarted the service
Problem solved.

I don't think that I have ever had a Tomcat Installation missing this though...

I ran into the same problem. I queried which package contained the file /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml with

yum provides /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml

No packages were reported to own this file. I then queried the same file for tomcat5 with

yum provides /etc/tomcat5/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml

And I got

tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.27-7.4.fc12.noarch : Administrative web applications for Apache Tomcat
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /etc/tomcat5/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml

I then ran

rpm -ql tomcat6-admin-webapps

as I had that package installed on my system to see if it contained the same file, but I found that it really missed that file(along with other xml files under /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost, although the folder itself existed as part of the tomcat6 package).

I've filed a bug report for this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641196.

---------- Post added at 01:38 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 02:00 AM GMT ----------

It turned out that the problem was related to bad file permissions on /etc/tomcat6/Catalina(and consequently on its subdirectory localhost) as illustrated in an earlier bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574593.