How to install Tomcat6 manager application

Question

I

• installed Tomcat6 on EC2 micro-instance,
• then added to tomcat-users.xml following line: <user name="tomcat-admin" password="mypassword" roles="manager,admin" /> and
• finally tried to access the manager application at http://myhost:8080/manager.

This didn't work - I got the 404 error message. http://myhost:8080/manager/html doesn't work, either.

Then I looked into the directory var/lib/tomcat6/webapps and found no manager directory there (see below).

What is the correct way to install the Tomcat6 manager application in EC2 linux?

Solution 1

I fixed the problem by removing Tomcat 6 and installing Tomcat 7 according to this tutorial using following command line statement:

sudo yum install tomcat7-webapps tomcat7-docs-webapp tomcat7-admin-webapps

Solution 2

Just download Tomcat (zip version) and upload the manager directory to your servers webapp directory. It only contains jsp so there is no need for an installation. Btw: If you are looking for a really great tomcat manager tool you can check PsiProbe.

Comments

[Glory to Russia]

Thanks. I need the manager application in order to implement continuous deployment (as described here - stackoverflow.com/questions/15922311/… ). Does PsiProbe do it better (easier, faster...) than the standard manager app?

[Oren Yosifon]

Thanks! this helped me, however,in CentOS 7.0 what worked for me was: sudo yum install tomcat-webapps tomcat-docs-webapp tomcat-admin-webapps