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Asked: 2026-06-12T01:08:05+00:00

I installed Tomcat 7 from here and I used the Windows Service Installer .

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I installed Tomcat 7 from here and I used the Windows Service Installer.

However, none of my old web-apps work, when I create a new web-app and try access it via http://localhost:8080/WSTest/ it doesn’t work unless I append index.jsp…

But, the one thing that bothers me the most is that I can not open the manager app even though I have an admin user defined in conf/tomcat-users.xml:

<user name="admin" password="some-pwd" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui" />

The weird thing is that after I installed Tomcat 7 even the manager app in Tomcat 6 would not work anymore.

It simply shows the blank white page with no content, never even asks me for credentials or anything.

Anyone knows what is going on here?

Thanks!

edit: It seems that this is a Firefox issue since I was able to access the manager app on Chrome.

However, once I connected Eclipse and started Tomcat from eclipse, the manager app was again broken, even on Chrome. There is an Eclipse issue here. I did copy the ROOT folder from Tomcat to Eclipse as suggested here and I even copied the manager folder as well as examples and docs folders.

When I run my test web-app in eclipse, I can see it at http://localhost:8080/WSTest/ properly. I can also see the Tomcat home page http://localhost:8080/ properly. But, I can not access the Manager App http://localhost:8080/manager/html as it says: “The requested resource is not available.“

If I stop Tomcat in Eclipse and start the Windows Service, then I can access the Manager App, but it doesn’t show my test web-app in the list.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Apparently the problem was with my Firefox installation. After exhausting all options and testing with Chrome, Safari, Opera and even IE, which all worked properly, I decided to uninstall Firefox with removing all profile settings and then re-install it again. The new installation works.

    p.s. HINT: if you are uninstalling Firefox completely, don’t forget to backup your bookmarks and passwords and save the list of your add-ons 😉
    bookmarks can be backed up directly from Firefox
    passwords can be stored with an add-on called Password Exporter
    add-ons I “save” with a screenshot 😀

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