Comments on: How to install Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

By: sudhir singh

sudhir singh — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:34:28 +0000

type the following lines than you can open

# gedit /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml

By: mahesh

mahesh — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:06:45 +0000

thanks for helping this site

By: Rais

Rais — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:54:48 +0000

Thanks a lot !!! This helped a lot.

By: Dark-Star1

Dark-Star1 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:43:56 +0000

@scoot
Thanks for the reply but after a quick thought I have decided to go down the headache route of using iptables to forward to the tomcat port.

By: scoot

scoot — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:35:38 +0000

@Dark-Star1
Sorry to hear that. Afraid I’m not familiar with RPM-based distros including CentOS. From a quick googling jsvc seems to be the preferred approach to enabling port 80 on CentOS. Also a good description here: http://blogs.mulesoft.org/a-better-tomcat-for-ubuntu-and-debian/

Good luck!

By: Dark-Star1

Dark-Star1 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:38:56 +0000

@Scoot
Using CentOS and tomcat 5.5. that file doesn’t exist in the default folder for me.

By: scoot

scoot — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:27:28 +0000

Suggestion for running on port 80 (tested on tomcat6 + ubuntu server 10.04 LTS).

- edit server.xml as above to change to port 80
- edit /etc/default/tomcat6 & change last line to:
AUTHBIND=yes

stop & restart server. Should then serve from port 80. Doesn’t need anything else (e.g. no iptables forwarding).

By: Eddy

Eddy — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:13:58 +0000

**edit**

you have to use sudo when running those commands

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:47:34 +0000

@Ivan, I found that that didn’t not work for me either. What I found is to first undo the change you made in the server.xml file and do this…

# install the iptables applications if they are not already there
apt-get -y install iptables
# tell iptables to forward incoming requests on port 80 to tomcat
/sbin/iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080

after I did this every thing worked great

BTW thanks for this article, it was a great help

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:07:38 +0000

I modified the server.xml file for the Connector as stated:

Now replace the part that says Connector port=”8080″ with Connector port=”80″

But now I just get the Apache default page at http://localhost and cannot access the examples, docs, etc. by browsing to http://localhost/examples/ or http://localhost/docs/

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:57:04 +0000

Spectacular guide! I’m completely new to Tomcat, and this got me up and running immediately. Thanks for the help.

By: alan

alan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:44:56 +0000

thanks!

By: tormentor

tormentor — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:10:57 +0000

excellent article

good job

By: david

david — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:24:59 +0000

Sorry my bad, typeo in xml

By: david

david — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:23:05 +0000

I have added the roles and user, after restarting tomcat I can’t even access http://localhost:8080/ it just keeps loading forever. commenting out all users and restarting tomcat makes tomcat available again, but then i can’t run the manager.

By: Narendra Sarkar

Narendra Sarkar — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:49:49 +0000

I could see admin and management interface for the default tomcat instance. But, how to configure admin and management interface for tomcat user instance which is created by tomcat6-instance-create myinstance command. I don’t see management and admin interface for my user tomcat instance.

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:04:19 +0000

thanks for the article, it helps me!

By: rizki

rizki — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:45:19 +0000

Rahul, have you tried: sudo nano /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:42:48 +0000

Hi All,
While I am changing the Username and Password in Tomcat6. It is saying that i don’t have permission to write that file. when I open /etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml with sudo command. It is saying “Command not found”.
Even I am not able to open tomcat-users.xml file. They is a cross mark at the top corner of the file.please help me I want to start Tomcat on ubuntu. So that I show my friends that everything happens on ubuntu!

By: Frans

Frans — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:11:21 +0000

You probably forgot to remove the XML comment markup from around the users and roles.