Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

Configuring the Apache Tomcat server

In this section, we will enable access to the Tomcat Manager app and Host Manager:

1. Open the  tomcat-users.xml file for editing, which is present inside the /opt/tomcat/conf directory:

        sudo nano /opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml 

2. The file will look something like the following, for simplicity, I have ignored the comments inside the file:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
        . . . 
        <tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml" 
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd" 
        version="1.0"> 
        . . . 
          <!-- 
            <role rolename="tomcat"/> 
            <role rolename="role1"/> 
            <user username="tomcat" password="<must-be-changed>" roles="tomcat"/> <user ...