Cannot login to Apache Usergrid deployed on Tomcat

Question

I downloaded and built Apache Usergrid on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and deployed the ROOT.war on my local tomcat7 server as per instructions given at https://usergrid.incubator.apache.org/docs/deploy-local/. I copied usergrid-deployment.properties file to CATALINA_HOME/lib, restarted Tomcat server and am trying to test it using http://localhost:8080/system/database/setup as per the instructions.

I get a login screen that has the following text at the top: [ A username and password are being requested by "http://localhost:8080". The site says: "Usergrid Authentication". ]. I try to login with the superuser id/pw as given in the usergrid-deployment.properties file but it does not recognize the id/pw and keeping throwing the same login screen. Did anyone encounter this problem? What am I missing? Do I need to add the superuser id/pw info to tomcat-users.xml? The instructions didn't ask for this. Even if I add what "role" would I use? Any help appreciated. BTW my Cassandra deployment works fine independent of Tomcat & Usergrid.

Answer 1

You have to copy the usergrid-custom.properties file in this folder

/usr/share/tomcat7/lib