Thanks Kerry and Thomas Here is my implementation using Tomcat 4.04
By default, the manager context is placed under %TOMCAT_HOME%\webapps\manager In order to use the manager to perform reload or deploy actions, what have to do is to add the "manager" role in the configure file, "tomcat-users.xml" under %TOMCAT_HOME%\conf For example, <tomcat-users> <user name="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat" /> <user name="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1" /> <user name="manager" password="password" roles="manager" /> <user name="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1" /> </tomcat-users> use the following link to reload the root context http://localhost:8080/manager/reload?path=/ However, it seems that once you type an incorrect password, after you see a http 403 message, then you have to close the current browser and execute a new one to do it again. Thank you very much Tom C. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

