Tomcat Manager Setup

Introduction

Tomcat comes with a simple administration application called "Tomcat Manager". To access it you need to configure a user and password.

With Tomcat runnning you can see a link to the Tomcat Manager when you go to the main Tomcat page at http://localhost:8080.

A direct link is as follows.

http://localhost:8080/manager/html

Edit the tomcat-user.xml file

Go to your tomcat conf directory and open the tomcat-user.xml file.

$ cd $CATALINA_HOME/conf

Add the following to the file.

If you change this file while Tomcat is running you'll see you the effects of your changes only have you shutdown and restart Tomcat.