tomcat manager

[marius tanislav]

hi,
i wish to configure the tomcat manager application and i encounter issue.
bin/tomcat-users.xml is:
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,admin-gui,manager-gui" />

server.xml
<Host name="www.ousor.com" appBase="webapps" unpackWAR="true" autoDeploy="true">

www.ousor.com ->192.168.77.142

conf/Catalina/www.ousor.com/manager.xml
<Context privileged="true" docBase="/root/apache-tomcat-7.0.61/webapps"
<Valva className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
allow="192\.168\.77\142" />
>

http://www.ousor.com:8080 is working but when i try to click on manager application button i receive error.
the same error if i try http://www.ousor.com:8080/manager/html

when i deploy an war file let`s say under /u directory,by command line,first i copy it under webapp directory and then i copy from here to /u directory.
if i copy war file directly under /u then no expanded directory will be.
is there other way to deploy by command line a war file under /u?
thans,
marius

[Tim Holloway]

You don't say what the error is. We cannot tell without some sort of message or log information.

You cannot deploy WARs by simply copying them into arbitrary directories. You have to inform Tomcat's deployer where to find them. Based on your server.xml excerpt, you're expecting to put WARs in the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory, since the Host statement indicates a relative directory path of "webapps".

And to deploy a WAR in the webapps directory, it must be in the webapps directory, not in a subdirectory under webapps.

[marius tanislav]

Hi Tim,
The error is 404 when i try http://www.vucni.com:8080/manager/html.even if i have #taill -f catalina.out,there is no error message.the same on the rest of logs.
catalina.out is:
May 05, 2015 5:11:20 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
May 05, 2015 5:11:20 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
May 05, 2015 5:11:20 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 17484 ms

war deployment.
server.xml is:
<Host name="vucni66.localdomain" appBase="u"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
</Host>

if i copy a war file under "u" directory and restart tomcat then i have the file deployed.
thanks,
marius

[Tim Holloway]

By using 'appBase="u"' you have swapped out TOMCAT_HOME/webapps for the TOMCAT_HOME/u directory. There's no magic involved, just a divergence from the stock configuration.

However, I have to question why you are defining a private "Host" element instead of using Tomcat's default "localhost" Host. Custom Host elements are normally only done if you are having Tomcat run multiple Virtual Hosts.

As to why a "404" - probably because you defined the Host as "vucni66.localdomain" but you're attempting to talk to "vucni66.com". Which is probably routing to the localhost Host.