On 01/05/2010 18:19, paul geer wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I had an installation of ubuntu 8.04 that I recently upgraded to 9.10. =
I
> barely used it before the upgrade so the system was very close to a fre=
sh
> install of 8.04 before the upgrade.
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> I installed tomcat6 with apt-get. After setting everything up, I check=
ed
> that I could access the "It works" default page from both inside my hom=
e
> network and would accept outside connections. Clicking the link for th=
e
> manager console prompted me for a username and password, but since I ha=
d not
> yet made changes to tomcat-users.xml, it failed as expected.
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> I edited the file (/etc/tomcat6/tomcat-users.xml), uncommented the
> "existing" users and added a manager role and a manager user with that
> role. Upon restarting the server, any attempt to connect to the server=
> locally or externally causes the browser to "spin" as if loading a page=
but
> with no results. I will sit and spin for hours if I let it (I have) wi=
thout
> timing out.
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> I have tried various permutations of users in the file, such as uncomme=
nting
> the original ones and not adding a manager role or user, adding the rol=
e to
> one of the default users, etc, but the only way to get the index page t=
o
> actually load again is to comment out all users.
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> Web searches of this issue have only turned up instances of people not
> realizing the users were commented out and editing the file anyway.
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> Also, /var/logs/tomcat6 does not contain any logs. I've used updatedb a=
nd
> locate to verify that there aren't other tomcat-users files elsewhere. =
I've
> also been unable to locate an alternate log directory.
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> Thanks for any help the community can offer. Enjoy your weekend,
If you revert to the original installation, does the /examples app work?
Does using the examples app generate log files in the expected location?
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