Tomcat 7 Manager - how to authenticate?

Question

I am trying to log in tomcat manager app but i cannot successfully create a login user in the tomcat-users.xml. The initial content was this:

Answer 1

You have add manager role user to access this feature. For this edit tomcat-users.xml file at apache-tomcat-7.0.56-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.56\conf if u are on windows. Search for line. This will probrably commented. Add this code :-