This turned out to be a security realm conflict. See my followup post "Multiple Tomcat Security Realms" Thanks.
--- grenoml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Tomcat 4.1.9 which has been running fine > up > until today when I downloaded the struts wars and > restarted Tomcat. Now I can't access the manager > app. > I look in tomcat-users and the correct username and > password are there but when I try to login to the > manager all I ever get is a 401 error. Is there > anything that the struts wars (struts-*.war plus > tiles-documentation.war) could have done to cause > this? I've checked server.xml, manager.xml, > ../server/webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml and found > nothing that looks different. There were a couple > new > entries in my tomcat-users.xml file that leads me to > suspect that somehow these wars caused this problem. > > I put back my original tomcat-users.xml but that > made > no difference and it keeps getting overwritten > eventually anyway. > > Here is the tomcat-users.xml: > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <tomcat-users> > <role rolename="admin"/> > <role rolename="manager"/> > <role rolename="role1"/> > <role rolename="tomcat"/> > <user username="role1" password="tomcat" > roles="role1"/> > <user username="me" password="tomcat" > roles="admin,manager"/> > <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" > roles="tomcat"/> > <user username="both" password="tomcat" > roles="tomcat,role1"/> > </tomcat-users> > > My original tomcat-users.xml looked like this: > <?xml version='1.0'?> > <tomcat-users> > <user name="me" password="tomcat" > roles="manager,admin"/> > </tomcat-users> > > Has anyone else seen this problem? Any ideas? > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
