Apache Tomcat/8.5.3 Manager App 403 error

Question

I have tomcat running on an ubuntu instance on aws and I can successfully get to the If you\'re seeing this, you\'ve successfully installed Tomcat. Congratulations!

Answer 1

You need to create a context for the Manager App and allow access from Tomcat 8.5.x

Under your $CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localhost/ home create a file manager.xml

manager.xml content, note my source is 172.31.254.37 (my computer), change this to your source :

Make sure your User/Roles are defined in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml

Kind Regards,

Jacques de Jager