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StudentKen
Asked: 2011-01-18 21:17:56 +0800 CST

Tomcat hangs when enabling tomcat-users.xml

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Disclaimer: I'm not a server admin.

I recently put up tomcat on my home server and I intend to link it to my apache2 service. My issue here is that I can't even get manager as it seems that whenever i enable the tomcat-users.xml, tomcat will hang.

For my Debian server, the users file is expected in /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml. Prior to creating the file, tomcat responded as expected with the test page. Once I created the file, it stopped, and resumed to work when I removed it.

Testing through telnet confirmed my suspicions as it hung on GET / requests, though connected during that time.

My tomcat-users.xml file is as so ($user , and $password substituted)

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

<tomcat-users>

<role rolename="manager"/>

<role rolename="admin"/>

<user username="$user" password="$password" roles="admin,manager"/>

</tomcat-users>

This is a default tomcat6 installation, so why would this cause a hang? how can I resolve this?

The syntax and hanging has been resolved thanks to jmort253, however <domain>:<port>/manager/html is still unavailable. Is there something equally silly I'm missing here? the documentation points that the default package should have this stock.

tomcat6

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Instead of dots, should those be quotes in rolename?

    <role rolename="manager" />

    Like above?

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  2. <role rolename=.manager./> not this try this `<role rolename=manager/>`
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