Configuring Tomcat Manager GUI

In Tomcat 5.5, the manager GUI comes packaged, but not configured. To configure:

cp tomcat5.5/server/webapps/manager/manager.xml tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina/localhost/

vi tomcat5.5/conf/tomcat-users.xml

add:

<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="admin" password="test1234" roles="tomcat,manager"/>

restart Tomcat.

The manager GUI can now be seen at:

http://hostname:8080/manager/html

and you will be prompted for the username and password you provided in the tomcat-users.xml