Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: John Moore [mailto:jbm@(protected)]
>> Subject: Tomcat6 Manager App HOW-TO
>>
>> It appears that the instruction to add (paths corrected)
>> <Context path="/manager" privileged="true"
>>   docBase="/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/manager">
>> </Context>
>> is wrong (based on message from Charles Caldarale on 5/16/2007)
>>  
>
> The path attribute is only valid when the <Context> element is in
> server.xml, which is strongly discouraged. For other <Context> uses,
> the path is derived from the name of war file (or directory) or the name
> of the .xml file in conf/Catalina/[host].
>  
i.e. Don't follow the directions..<G>

>  
>> So.. in reading the rest of the instructions I'm finding
>> things are not quite working as documented.
>>  
>
> Please point out where in the Tomcat 6 doc you're finding discrepancies.
>  
Everything I'm asking here comes from the Tomcat6 Manager HOW-TO..
(newly printed from the site)

You are basically saying, as I understand it, that it is either wrong
or incomplete.

(It may, of course, just be that my ignorance is so bad that I can make
sense of it all..<G>)


>  
>> 1) Is the instruction that you add a manager.xml to each
>>   $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]
>> ..folder required?
>>  
>
> Not for Tomcat 6, since the directory structure has changed. In TC 5.5
> and older, the various management applications were located outside of
> the normal <Host> appBase (in server/webapps), and therefore required
> [appname].xml files in conf/Catalina/[host]. For TC 6, the management
> applications are located under the configured appBase directory, so
> their <Context> elements can be found in their respective META-INF
> directories.
>
> If you configure multiple <Host> elements with differing appBase
> attributes, you have two choices. Either copy the management
> applications to each appBase, or keep them in one spot and create
> [appname].xml files with appropriate docBase attributes in each
> conf/[engine]/[host], similar to TC 5.5.
>  
Great thanks.. That is the missing piece(s) in the docs... Ditto for
your following advice..
>  
>>   but can not access the host-manager at:
>>   http://localhost:8080/host-manager/html
>>   ..I get a 403 (I did try adding a host-manager role to the
>> tomcat-user.xml , but no joy)
>>  
>
> Look in the WEB-INF/web.xml file for host-manager; you'll see that the
> required role name is admin, not manager or host-manager.
>
>  
>> 3) I can not access a virtual host Manager at
>>   http://www.domainhere.com:8080/manager/html
>>  
>
> What appBase did you configure for the www.domainhere.com <Host>? If
> you don't have a manager webapp deployed there, you'll need to create a
> conf/Catalina/www.domainhere.com/manager.xml file that contains a
> <Context> element with a docBase attribute that points to the location
> of the manager webapp.
>
>