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I have set-up a CentOS 7 VPS with Tomcat 8 to serve my applications to my institute, following this guide. I can access the Tomcat server usual page but not the App Manager. I believe I well configured the tomcat-users.xml, but I have no prompt for a login and password and it keeps telling me "403 Access denied". I already configured tomcat 8 but on an Ubuntu Server more than one year ago, and it worked out of the box. There is probably something I missed .... but I can't see what it is.

Here is a copy of my tomcat-users.xml : 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml"
              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd"
              version="1.0">
    <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
    <user username="tomcat-xxxxxxx" password="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" roles="manager-gui"/>
</tomcat-users>

Thanks for your help !

Buffort
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  • any progress ? I have same problem – hudi Sep 06 '16 at 11:51
  • Sorry to be so late in my answer. No .... no progress. I reinstalled my test server few days ago, and I still have the same issue with Tomcat 8.5 ... really strange ... – Buffort Sep 26 '16 at 07:01

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I have the same issue, Env: centos 6 64 Tomcat 8.5.23

Solution has been found here: 403 Access Denied on Tomcat 8 Manager App without prompting for user/password

Find the CATALINA_HOME/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml file and add the comment markers around the Valve.

<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" >
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />
-->
</Context>
mobabel
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The documentation puts both manager-gui and admin-gui as the roles the user is supposed to have. Try declaring the admin-gui role and adding it to the tomcat user you have there.

Mike Thomsen
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  • Thanks, Mike, for your help. I added the "admin-gui" but it didn't work, still no access. I am wondering if Tomcat read the file finally .... – Buffort Aug 08 '16 at 13:50