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m88
m88

Reputation: 1539

What is the default username and password in Tomcat?

I installed Netbeans and tryed to access the server's manager using: (id/pass)manager/manager, admin/admin, system/password... None of them worked.

Upvotes: 107

Views: 557197

Answers (20)

thundernhut
thundernhut

Reputation: 11

You do need to edit conf/tomcat-users.xml and add just right above </tomcat-users> this line:

  <user username="admin" password="123" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status"/>

But you also need to restart your Tomcat server, too for it to take effect. After I restarting, it works just fine.

Upvotes: 0

CristiC
CristiC

Reputation: 22698

Check the file in <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf named tomcat-users.xml.
If you don't find something there edit it to look something like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
    <role rolename="admin"/>
    <user username="admin" password="password" roles="standard,manager,admin"/>
</tomcat-users>

Upvotes: 80

AJAY KACHHIYAPATEL
AJAY KACHHIYAPATEL

Reputation: 169

Check the file in <TOMCAT_HOME>/conf named tomcat-users.xml. If you don't find something there edit to look something like:

You can access in tomcat Manager-App and Host-Manager. add two role in one line

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

Upvotes: 1

Amichai Ungar
Amichai Ungar

Reputation: 300

try tomcat tomcat as the default username and password (tomcat 7)

Upvotes: 0

magic_turtle
magic_turtle

Reputation: 1333

In Tomcat 7, 8, and 9 there is NO default user, so nobody can access a Manager app. You need to alter conf/tomcat-users.xml by adding new user with the role "manager-gui", like: 

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

Look up here: https://www.mkyong.com/tomcat/tomcat-default-administrator-password/

Upvotes: 25

Aks
Aks

Reputation: 7629

Go to "%TOMCAT_FOLDER%/conf/tomcat-users.xml" and configure the following : 

<tomcat-users>
    <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
    <role rolename="manager-script"/>
    <role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
    <role rolename="manager-status"/>
    <role rolename="admin"/>
    <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin,manager-gui,manager-script"/>
</tomcat-users>

Hence, the username is "admin" and password is "admin"

Upvotes: 21

tk_
tk_

Reputation: 17368

First navigate to below location and open it in a text editor

<TOMCAT_HOME>/conf/tomcat-users.xml

For tomcat 7, Add the following xml code somewhere between <tomcat-users> 

  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="username" password="password" roles="manager-gui"/>

Now restart the tomcat server.

Upvotes: 2

Peter Arboleda
Peter Arboleda

Reputation: 521

In conf/tomcat-users.xml you can see what's your actual user configuration, in my case is usually user="admin" and pass="1234"

Upvotes: 0

Ye Htun Z
Ye Htun Z

Reputation: 2107

For Window 7, Netbeans 8.0.2 , Apache Tomcat 8.0.15
C:\Users\JONATHAN\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\8.0.2\apache-tomcat-8.0.15.0_base\conf\tomcat-users.xml
The Tomcat Manager Username and password is like below pic..
tomcat-users.xml

Upvotes: 1

Irshad
Irshad

Reputation: 91

Open tomcat-users.xml which should be in C:\Tomcat 7.0\conf

Add following lines in above file :

<tomcat-users>
     <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
     <user username="admin" password="" roles="manager-gui"/>

     <role rolename="admin-gui"/>
     <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="admin-gui"/>        
 </tomcat-users>

Note :

  1. admin-gui -> Username & Password - Do not Change.
  2. manager-gui -> you can change user name & password for this only. [Here password is not given]

Upvotes: 9

Tushar Joshi
Tushar Joshi

Reputation: 2224

My answer is tested on Windows 7 with installation of NetBeans IDE 6.9.1 which has bundled Tomcat version 6.0.26. The instruction may work with other tomcat versions according to my opinion.

If you are starting the Apache Tomcat server from the Servers panel in NetBeans IDE then you shall know that the Catalina base and config files used by NetBeans IDE to start the Tomcat server are kept at a different location.

Steps to know the catalina base directory for your installation:

  1. Right click on the Apache Tomcat node in Servers panel and choose properties option in the context menu. This will open a dialog box named Servers.
  2. Check the directory name of the field Catalina Base, this is that directory where the current conf/tomcat-users.xml is located and which you want to open and read.
    (In my case it is C:\Users\Tushar Joshi\.netbeans\6.9\apache-tomcat-6.0.26_base )
  3. Open this directory in My Computer and go to the conf directory where you will find the actual tomcat-users.xml file used by NetBeans IDE. NetBeans IDE comes configured with one default password with username="ide" and some random password, you may change this username and password if you want or use it for your login also
  4. This dialog box also have username and password field which are populated with these default username and password and NetBeans IDE also offers you to open the manager application by right clicking on the manager node under the Apache Tomcat node in Servers panel
  5. The only problem with the NetBeans IDE is it tries to open the URL http://localhost:8084/manager/ which shall be http://localhost:8084/manager/html now

Upvotes: 39

Nenad Bulatović
Nenad Bulatović

Reputation: 7444

In Tomcat 7 you have to add this to tomcat-users.xml (On windows 7 it is located by default installation here: c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\conf\ )

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
  <role rolename="manager-status"/>
  <role rolename="admin-gui"/>
  <role rolename="admin-script"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status,admin-gui,admin-script"/>
</tomcat-users>

NOTE that there shouldn't be ANY spaces between roles for admin, as this list should be comma separated.

So, instead of this (as suggested in some answers:

<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui, manager-script, manager-jmx, manager-status, admin-gui, admin-script"/>

it MUST be like this:

  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status,admin-gui,admin-script"/>

Upvotes: 49

Jonathan Lee
Jonathan Lee

Reputation: 21

Only this helped me:

To use the web administration gui you have to add the gui role : 

<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>

<user username="name" password="pwd" roles="admin,admin-gui,manager,manager-gui"/>

Upvotes: 2

Steve Kritzer
Steve Kritzer

Reputation: 29

Platform NetBeans 7.3, Apache Tomcat 7.0.34 re: Tomcat Manager

I spent 3 days tracking this down because I thought I had a bad install.

On Windows and Linux, NetBeans uses a separate file location for CATALINA_BASE:

http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqInstallationDefaultTomcatPassword

So you can modify the tomcat_user.xml under CATALINA_HOME: until your face turns blue, to no effect.

It appears that the IDE only requires, manager-script,admin roles under CATALINA_BASE:.

When I tried to add a user to the manager-gui role (to the correct tomcat_user.xml file), required for access to the Tomcat Manager, Tomcat stopped presenting the login dialog and went directly to the 401 access denied splash page.

It appears that the NetBeans package uses a locked-down version of TomCat.

I hope this saves everyone some time.

Upvotes: 1

purushottam mishra
purushottam mishra

Reputation: 1

If your apache tomcat asking for password,then just follow these steps: go to the home directory of apache then go to webapps folder open the META-INF inside that you will find an xml file named context.xml--open it in edit mode

and REMOVE THE COMMENT FROM the VALVE tag.

After that you dont need any user name and password.

Upvotes: 0

Darryl
Darryl

Reputation: 1

If people still have problems after adding/modifying the tomcat-users.xml file and adding the relevant user/role for the version of Tomcat that they're using then please be sure that you've removed the comment tags that are surrounding this block. They will look like this in the XML file:
<!--
-->
They will be above and below the user/role section.

Upvotes: 0

msangel
msangel

Reputation: 10362

in file /conf/tomcat-users.xml check or add:

......
<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="ide" password="ide" roles="manager,tomcat,manager-script"/>
</tomcat-users>

Upvotes: 2

Buhake Sindi
Buhake Sindi

Reputation: 89169

In Tomcat 7, under TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat_users.xml, see the <user /> tag to see password.

Example:

  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>

Upvotes: 2

Mick Sear
Mick Sear

Reputation: 1566

Well, you need to look at the answers above, but you'll find that the manager app requires you to have a user with the role 'manager', I believe, so you'll probably want to add the following to your tomcat-users.xml file:

<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="youruser" password="yourpass" roles="manager"/>

This might seem simplistic, but it's just a simple implementation that you can extend / replace with other authentication mechanisms.

Upvotes: 2

Bozho
Bozho

Reputation: 597124

Look in your conf/tomcat-users.xml. If there is nothing there, you'd have to configure it.

Upvotes: 1

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