Hi,

I am trying to manage my tomcat webapp via ant, that is, start it, stop it, list apps, etc. But I keep bumping up against an authentication problem.

I have read this:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/manager-howto.html#Configuring%20Manager%20Application%20Access

and several other similar documents and related FAQs, etc., but am finding nothing that ties the error to this particular situation.


I have these and some other similar snippets in my build.xml:

<property name="tomcat.home" location="/opt/tomcat"/>
<property name="tomcat.manager.url"
   value="http://localhost:8080/manager"/>
<property name="tomcat.manager.username" value="xxxx"/>
<property name="tomcat.manager.password" value="yyyyy"/>

<taskdef name="list" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask">
  <classpath>
    <path location="${tomcat.home}/server/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
  </classpath>
</taskdef>

<target name="list" description="List Tomcat applications">
  <list url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
    username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
    password="${tomcat.manager.password}"/>
</target>

Ant's [tidied] output is this (I may have munged the html):

list:
[list] <html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/5.0.30 - Error report</title><style> <h1>HTTP Status 401 - </h1> <b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u></u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>This request requires HTTP authentication ().</u>
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second

I've checked the username and password multiple times against tomcat-users.xml so I believe they are correct. (I didn't have it right at first, and the error then was "Connection refused". That error went away after I corrected them, so I think they are right now.)

I'm using java 1.5, tomcat 5.0.30, and ant 1.6.5 on Linux Fedora Core 5.

Any insights, suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated!

TIA!

Anne





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