Tomcat manager/html is not available?

Question

Hi I just installed Tomcat and and am trying to get it up and running however whenever I try to navigate to manager/html it gives me this error "The requested resource (/manager/html) is not available".

The homepage, /docs, /examples all work fine and my logs show nothing. How do I fix this? I'm using Tomcat 6.0.20 and JDK 1.6.0_21 on Windows 7 64bit.

Answer 1

I had the situatuion when tomcat manager did not start. I had this exception in my logs/manager.DDD-MM-YY.log:

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart
SEVERE: Exception starting filter CSRF
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        ...

This exception was raised because I used a version of tomcat that hadn't CSRF prevention filter. Tomcat 6.0.24 doesn't have the CSRF prevention filter in it. The first version that has it is the 6.0.30 version (at least. according to the changelog). As a result, Tomcat Manager was uncompatible with version of Tomcat that I used. I've digged description of this issue here: http://blog.techstacks.com/.m/2009/05/tomcat-management-setting-up-tomcat/comments/

Steps to fix it:

1. Check version of tomcat installed by running "sh version.sh" from your tomcat/bin directory
2. Download corresponding version of tomcat
3. Stop tomcat
4. Remove your webapps/manager directory and copy manager application from distributive that you've downloaded.
5. Start tomcat

Now you should be able to access tomcat manager.

Answer 2

You have to check if you have the folder with name manager inside the folder webapps in your tomcat.

Rubens-MacBook-Pro:tomcat rfanjul$ ls -la webapps/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   8 rfanjul  staff   272 21 May 12:20 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 rfanjul  staff   476 21 May 12:22 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 rfanjul  staff  6148 21 May 12:20 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x  19 rfanjul  staff   646 17 Feb 15:13 ROOT
drwxr-xr-x  51 rfanjul  staff  1734 17 Feb 15:13 docs
drwxr-xr-x   6 rfanjul  staff   204 17 Feb 15:13 examples
drwxr-xr-x   7 rfanjul  staff   238 17 Feb 15:13 host-manager
drwxr-xr-x   8 rfanjul  staff   272 17 Feb 15:13 manager

After that you will be sure that you have this permmint for you user in the file conf/tomcat-users.xml:

<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="test" password="test" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui"/>

restart tomcat and stat tomcat again.

sh bin/shutdown.sh 
sh bin/startup.sh

I hope that will works fine for you.