401 Unauthorized error while logging in Manager-App of Tomcat

Question

I am trying to log in to the Manager App in Tomcat 7.0.22 for Mac OS X 10.7. Here is the error I am getting: http://f.cl.ly/items/421q1K3f1i0X1H1M181v/so.tiff

Answer 1

The below should work for a "vanilla" installation (or zip/tar archive) - replace your tomcat-users.xml with (similar to) this:

I ran into similar issue and still not able to login using Google Chrome (Version 73.0.3683.103) as on date 05/14/2019 10:30am CST despite reinstalling/configuring Google Chrome multiple times.

I would suggest, try using different browser such as Firefox/IE etc if you are running into this issue even after fiddling a lot with xmls.