I'm able to reach tomcat in the browser. I've done all the prep to be able to access the GUI apps, but I am still told I am not authorized.
I have my /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml in code blocks below. I'm using Tomcat 8.5.14 for Ubuntu 16.04 Linux.
in /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml --->
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<user username="tomcat-admin" password="Newvegas3" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui"/>
</tomcat-users>
I've also suitably allowed connections to manager and host manager apps via this method from someone's post on a similar question.
In /opt/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml:
<Context privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/manager">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="^.*$" />
</Context>
In /opt/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/host-manager.xml:
<Context privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false" docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/host-manager">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="^.*$" />
</Context>
Now on the tomcat portal in browser I get prompted for password when trying to access the manager app or the host manager app but inputing the information from tomcat-users.xml and hitting "OK" just loops me to putting in my information without doing anything. When I escape the password prompt, I just get sent to an "error 401 unathorized page" for both manager app and host-manager app.
What gives? I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong even after hours of testing.
