What is Tomcat default administrator password ?

By mkyong | July 30, 2008 | Updated : February 3, 2016 | Viewed : 1,035,509 | +1,858 pv/w

Is there or what is the default administrator user and password for Tomcat?

Tested :

Tomcat 8.0.30
Tomcat 7.0.67
Tomcat 6.0.44

Article update history

Updated 03/02/2016 : Add support for Tomcat 7 and 8.
Updated 08/04/2011 : Update article.

1. Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8

Tomcat users are defined in the file – $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml, by default, there is NO user, it means no one can access the Tomcat manager page.

To enable users to access the Tomcat manager page, add a user as the role manager-gui.

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml (Original)


<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
</tomcat-users>

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml (Updated)


<tomcat-users>
<!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->

	<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
	<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui"/>

</tomcat-users>

Saved it and restart Tomcat, now you should able to access the default manager page (http://localhost:8080/manager) with user = “admin” and password = “admin”

Note
Please refer to this official Tomcat Manager App HOW-TO

2. Tomcat 6

For Tomcat 6, add a user as the role manager

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml (Updated)


<tomcat-users>

  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager"/>

</tomcat-users>

Note
This “manager” role is deprecated, and removed since Tomcat 7.

References

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Comments

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Guest

Agus Cardeilhac

Hi !. I am writing you from Córdoba, Argentina. I am placing the same Xml Content in the tomcat-users file and I am still being rejected and get a 401 invalid credentials or unauthorized… I am under tomcat 7… Is there any other thing to configure in order to get into the manager console and deploy an app ?.
Thankx

Guest

Angel Rodrigues

Did you restart the server after adding the new users?

Guest

Luis

this helped me, thanks.

Guest

sreekumar

it worked for me,thanks

Guest

robert

mkyong thanx for a wonderful help, here is the one i tried.

Open in notepad, and just erase everything you have in tomcat-users.xml file and paste these lines.

 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='cp1252'?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/>
</tomcat-users>

hope it will work :)

Guest

sanjeeev kumar

thanku very much

Guest

esmaeill

thank you

Guest

Vaibhav Reddy

Thanks it helped :)

Guest

Roberto Góes

Thanks!

Guest

renaissance

thanks for the info

Guest

vikaks

When i save then is give a message Access denied means unable to save……what to do tell me

Guest

Bar

hmm not posting
role rolename=”manager-gui”
role rolename=”admin-gui”
user username=”admin” password=”admin” roles=”admin-gui, manager-gui”

Guest

Bar

Hi
still struggling with it. spend few days on internet but still no luck
is there a way to troubleshoot?
my OS
Windows
my Tomcat is:
Apache Tomcat/8.0.14
my tomcat-users.xml:

in my context.xml locking to local host is commented out
in my server.xml following uncommented
<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
.
and
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm"
.
by one of suggestions created
D:Tomcat80_4confCatalinalocalhostmanager.xml

still getting 401

appreciate any suggestion

Regards

Guest

Bar

missed to post users xml

Guest

Miguel

MIchisimas gracias

Guest

Bor

Thanks a lot!!!!!!

Guest

Jaskirat Bamrah

As after above code I was still note able to get my Application Manager/ App manager Then Change the role

so, can also set this code as (this below code worked for me)

manager-gui — Access to the HTML interface.

manager-status — Access to the “Server Status” page only.

manager-script — Access to the tools-friendly plain text interface that is described in this document, and to the “Server Status” page.

manager-jmx — Access to JMX proxy interface and to the “Server Status” page.

Guest

mkyong

Thanks, fixed and updated.

Guest

Harsh

add a role manager-gui to the list.

Guest

CYRIL YOHANNAN

I installed tomcat in my Virtual Private Server in godaddy. Now I tried to access to Tomcat Host Manager using url: http://myServerIP:8080
But I dont know the username and password for the same. How to get the username and password to login to host manager? Is there any default password.? Please help. I’m in real trouble.

Guest

srikanth parimi

As you said I added few users that’s working fine but up to how many maximum users i can add for tomcat manager to log in.

Guest

zoyeb

<!–

–>

note:replace the entire text except this (note) USERNAME:tomcat PASSWORD:s3cret

Guest

Skender Kollcaku

Hi,
My name is Skender Kollcaku.
here is the xml I saved with the Vi editor under Debian:

<!–

–>

Hope it helps you!
Sk

Guest

Sergio

It works, thanks!

Guest

Muza Izama

it work… thanks so mch,,,,,,

Guest

silverxmay

this worked for me too

Guest

Bipin Kumar

it worked – Thanks . the key is will not work – will work

Guest

asd

try this ..its working for me
replace entire file ..
i have windows 7 ..apache 7.

Guest

Cláudia Cristina da Silva

thanks.

Guest

karthickeyan ganesan

thankas

Guest

Azhar Mohamed

Yes this helped me to as manager alone would not load, so changed to rolename=manager-gui

Guest

Ucup Timposu

yes… its work..

Guest

Anshul Sood

Thank you Mkyong!

Guest

Ali

Thank You mkyong.

Guest

mehdi

thinks a lot for all your tips, but i still have a problem ———————————————————- 403 Access Denied You are not authorized to view this page. If you have already configured the Manager application to allow access and you have used your browsers back button, used a saved book-mark or similar then you may have triggered the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection that has been enabled for the HTML interface of the Manager application. You will need to reset this protection by returning to the main Manager page. Once you return to this page, you will be able to continue using… Read more »

Guest

nadim

when i am updating xml file. it show an error message, telling that access to tomcat-user.xml was denied. pls tell, why it is happening?

Guest

blumonkey

Did you use sudo to edit the file?

Guest

manuxx

Thanks a lot!

Guest

anthony

It’s nearly impossible to find educated people for this topic, however, you seem like you know what you’re talking about!
Thanks

Guest

robert

here are the lines. something went wrong earlier.

Open in notepad, and just erase everything you have in tomcat-users.xml file and paste these lines.

hope it will work :)

Guest

robert

mkyong thanx for a wonderful help, here is the one i tried.

Open in notepad, and just erase everything you have in tomcat-users.xml file and paste these lines.

save the file, restart it, i hope it will work :)

Guest

yashan

user is tomcat
password is password
this line xml comments sometime your command chainging a cmment using good for programer notepad is good one or other highlighters not using a word or notepad

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ravi

thanks a lot…. :)