Question

I cannot login to the manager application for Tomcat 7.0.25. Even with the right credentials I always get a 403 Access Denied. What am I missing?

tomcat-users.xml:

<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="admin" password="pass" role='admin-gui,manager-gui'/>
</tomcat-users>

Answer 1

try adding a ‘s’ to your role attribute name so that the <user> tag reads:

<user username="admin" password="pass" roles='admin-gui,manager-gui'/>