Configure Tomcat Manager Gui

This document describes how to configure Tomcat manager functionality including:

Refer to Apache Tomcat Manager App HOW-TO

Copy manager web application folder(webapps/manager) from the Tomcat source to your webapps directory.
Copy host-manager web application folder(webapps/host-manager) from the Tomcat source to your webapps directory.

Configure UserDatabaseRealm in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml. Usually you can keep the existing server.xml content from the Tomcat source.

Configure Tomcat users.
Edit $CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="userABC" password="passABC" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui"/>

You can also define different users to login to “admin-gui” and “manager-gui” by using 2 derivatives.

Now you can start Tomcat server.
Use web browser to connect to:
Web manager –> http://localhost:8080/manager/
Host manager –> http://localhost:8080/host-manager/
The login window should popup for you to login.

Optional
If you like to use virtual host to set up the Tomcat manager gui, follow this.

Edit $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml

      <Host appBase="" autoDeploy="true" name="h1.test.com" unpackWARs="true">
        <!-- Access log processes all example.
             Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
             Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs" pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" prefix="h1.test.com_access_log." suffix=".txt"/>
      </Host>

Create file $CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/h1.test.com/manager.xml

<Context privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
         docBase="${catalina.home}/webapps/manager">
</Context>

Change file permission so Tomcat can access it.

Now start Tomcat server. Use web browser to connect to
Web manager –> http://h1.test.com:8080/manager/
Host manager –> http://h1.test.com:8080/host-manager/