Sorry.  I'm using tomcat 6.0.26.  I made sure my changes are not within
comments.  The full file is:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
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<tomcat-users>
<!--
  NOTE:  By default, no user is included in the "manager" role required
  to operate the "/manager" web application.  If you wish to use this app,
  you must define such a user - the username and password are arbitrary.
-->
<!--
  NOTE:  The sample user and role entries below are wrapped in a comment
  and thus are ignored when reading this file. Do not forget to remove
  <!.. ..> that surrounds them.
-->
<!--
  <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"/>
-->
    <role rolename="manager"/>
    <user username="user" password="pass" roles="manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] 
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 9:55 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Configuring users

On 15/11/2010 15:51, Noah, Craig [USA] wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm trying to configure a user to use the manager web application.  I have
> read the comments in the tomcat-users.xml file on my server and added the
> following two lines to the file:
> 
> <role rolename="manager"/>
> 
> <user username="user" password="pass" roles="manager"/>
> 
> I have saved the file and restarted the server, but am still unable to get
> to the manager web application.  When I try to browse to the manager web
> application at http://localhost:8084/manager/, I get a 404 report stating
> the requested resource is not available.  What am I missing?

Telling us which Tomcat version and providing the complete contents of
tomcat-users.xml would be a start. Without that, my best guess is you
didn't spot the comment markers in the default file.

Mark

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