How do I use Apache tomcat 7 built in Host Manager gui

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Hi I have Apache Tomcat 7 0 5 on my Windows server  and i see that it has a built in Host Manager  but i can t seem to find any useful info on how to use it or set up a virtual Host with that GUI   The fields are Name  Aliases  App Base  AutoDeploy Deploy on Startupdeploy XML UnpackWARS ManageApp  any where I can get a tutorial on how to set it up  or info on this    Thanks

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Well if you are using Netbeans in Linux  then you should look for the tomcat-user xml in       home Username  netbeans 8 0 apache-tomcat-8 0 3 0 base conf  its called Catalina Base and is often hidden    instead of the apacahe installation directory    open tomcat-user xml inside that folder  uncomment the user and roles and add replace the following line        lt user username  tomcat  password  tomcat  roles  tomcat admin admin-gui manager manager-gui   gt    restart the server   That s all

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For tomcat 8   1 Go to context xml file located for instance   home ubuntu tomcat webapps manager META-INF   comment out valve tag  save and exit  2 Go to tomcat-users xml file located in conf directory of tomcat  Add the respective roles     under the tomcat-users tag  Save and exit    Restart the tomcat    Now  you will be able to have access to the manager app

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Solution for a fresh install of Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 12 04   Edit this file -  etc tomcat7 tomcat-users xml to add this xml section -    lt tomcat-users gt   lt role rolename  admin   gt   lt role rolename  admin-gui   gt   lt role rolename  manager-gui   gt   lt user username  tomcatadmin  password  tomcat2009  roles  admin admin-gui manager-gui   gt   lt  tomcat-users gt    restart Tomcat -   service tomcat7 restart   urls to access managers -    tomcat test page - http   localhost 8080  manager webapp - http   localhost 8080 manager html host-manager webapp - http   localhost 8080 host-manager html   just wanted to put the latest info out there

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Just a note that all the above may not work for you with tomcat7 unless you ve also done this    sudo apt-get install tomcat7-admin

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Tomcat 8   The following worked for me with tomcat 8   Add these lines to apache-tomcat-8 0 9 conf tomcat-users xml  For Manager    lt role rolename  manager-gui   gt   lt user username  admin  password  pass  roles  manager-gui   gt    For Host Manager    lt role rolename  admin-gui   gt   lt user username  admin  password  pass  roles  admin-gui   gt

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Host Manager is a web application inside of Tomcat that creates removes Virtual Hosts within Tomcat   A Virtual Host allows you to define multiple hostnames on a single server  so you can use the same server to handles requests to  for example  ren myserver com and stimpy myserver com   Unfortunately documentation on the GUI side of the Host Manager doesn t appear to exist  but documentation on configuring the virtual hosts manually in context xml is here    http   tomcat apache org tomcat-7 0-doc virtual-hosting-howto html   The full explanation of the Host parameters you can find here   http   tomcat apache org tomcat-7 0-doc config host html   Adding a virtual host  Once you have access to the host-manager  see other answers on setting up the permissions  the GUI will let you add a  temporary - see edit at the end of this post  virtual host     At a minimum you need the Name and App Base fields defined  Tomcat will then create the following directories    CATALINA HOME  conf Catalina  Name   CATALINA HOME   App Base     App Base will be where web applications will be deployed to the virtual host  Can be relative or absolute  Name is usually the fully-qualified domain name  e g  ren myserver com  Alias can be used to extend the Name also where two addresses should resolve to the same host  e g  www ren myserver com   Note that this needs to be reflected in DNS records    The checkboxes are as follows    Auto Deploy  Automatically redeploy applications placed into App Base  Dangerous for Production environments  Deploy On Startup  Automatically boot up applications under App Base when Tomcat starts Deploy XML  Determines whether to parse the application s  META-INF context xml Unpack WARs  Unpack WAR files placed or uploaded to the App Base  as opposed to running them directly from the WAR  Tomcat 8 Copy XML  Copy an application s META-INF context xml to the App Base XML Base on deployment  and use that exclusively  regardless of whether the application is updated  Irrelevant if Deploy XML is false  Manager App  Add the manager application to the Virtual Host  Useful for controlling the applications you might have underneath ren myserver com      Update  After playing around with this same process on Tomcat8  the behaviour I m seeing is that adding a virtual host via the GUI isn t persistent - it doesn t get written to server xml  even on shutdown  Therefore  unless I m doing something terribly wrong   you can create it in the GUI  but you ll need to edit server xml anyway  as per the first link above  to make it stick

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I m not sure about Tomcat 7  but with Tomcat 6    once you start Tomcat  By going into the bin directory and starting startup bat  win  or startup sh  Unix osx  it will spin up a local instance of the server running usually on port 8080 by default  Then by going to http   localhost 8080  and seeing that it is running  there is a link to the manager  If that page is not there  you can try loading the manager by going directly to manager html  and that will load the Host Manager gui   http   localhost 8080 manager html  Make sure Tomcat is running first and that 8080 is the right port  These are just the defaults that tomcat usually runs with   To login you need to edit the conf tomcat-users xml  and create a Manager GUI role   lt role rolename  manager-gui   gt    and add that to a user   lt user username  admin  password  password  roles  manager-gui   gt    Then when you go to Manager GUI app at http   localhost 8080 manager html it will prompt you for a username password  which you added to that config file

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To access  Host Manager  you have to configure  admin-gui  user inside the tomcat-users xml   Just add the below lines change username  amp  pwd       lt role rolename  admin-gui   gt   lt user username  admin  password  password  roles  admin-gui   gt    Restart tomcat 7 server and you are done

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