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

If non of above works for you, make sure tomcat has access to manager folder under webapps (chown ...). The message is the exact same message, and It took me 2 hours to figure out the problem. :-)

just for someone else who came here for the same issue as me.