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

I have to modify the following files

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml and add following line

This will allow tomcat to be accessed from any machine, if you want to grant access to specific IP then use the below value instead of allow="^.*$"