Tomcat Configurations

Defining Users for Tomcat Server

We can add users for tomcat server in following way.

1. Open <tomcat-home>/conf/tomcat-users.xml

2. Add following entries or just uncomment and edit existing entries as shown below. 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

Note: manager must be added as a role to allow access to <Tomcat Manager> menu

Source: http://www.mkyong.com/tomcat/tomcat-default-administrator-password/ 

Remote debugging Tomcat 6 using Eclipse

With Tomcat 6 you could quite easily debug server side codes using Eclipse.

Step 1: What you fist have to do is, start the Tomcat using the following command.


          Tomcat6\bin>catalina.bat jpda start

Step 2: Next create a remote application configuration as shown in the following figure and run it.