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 was having same problem while installing tomcat in docker. I have solved by adding "^.*$" instead of "127.\d+.\d+.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|123.123.123.123"

Restart the tomcat.