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Asked: 2026-05-31T04:08:00+00:00

Here’s my tomcat-users.xml : <?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’utf-8′?> <tomcat-users> <role rolename=tomcat/> <role rolename=role1/> <role rolename=admin/>

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Here’s my tomcat-users.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
    <role rolename="tomcat"/>
    <role rolename="role1"/>
    <role rolename="admin"/>
    <role rolename="manager"/>

    <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
    <user username="MyAdmin" password="pswd" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

I restart tomcat and go to localhost:8080/manager. It asks me to log in. I enter the admin/manager credentials (u = MyAdmin and p = pswd) and it fails, giving me the following 403:

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Whats going on here? I’m almost 100% sure I have the XML configured right!?! Is it possible something else isn’t configured properly?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just realized from your screenshot you are using Tomcat 7.
    Roles have changed a little bit. See the updated documentation

    You can find the role names in the web.xml file of the Manager web
    application. The available roles are:

    manager-gui — Access to the HTML interface.

    manager-status — Access to the “Server Status” page only.

    manager-script — Access to the tools-friendly plain text interface that is described in >this document, and to the “Server Status” page.

    manager-jmx — Access to JMX proxy interface and to the “Server Status” page.

    update your role to the appropriate setting.

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