403 Access Denied on Tomcat 8 Manager App without prompting for user/password

Question

I have set up tomcat 8 according to this, and I have the following tomcat-users.xml file:

Answer 1

Useful link here: Access Tomcat Manager App from different host

From Tomcat version 8 onward's, manager/html url won't be accessible to anyone except localhost.

In order to access /manager/html url, you need to do below change in context.xml of manager app. 1. Go to /apache-tomcat-8.5.23/webapps/manager/META-INF location, then edit context.xml

  
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2. Restart the server.