HTTP Authentication dialog box

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It would not be safe to ship web servers with default settings that allowed anyone on the Internet to execute them on your server. Therefore, the web servers are shipped with the requirement that anyone who attempts to use them must authenticate themselves, using a username and password with the appropriate role associated with them.

For example, to authenticate yourself when you want to use the Tomcat Manager to deploy your web application, you need a username and password for a user with the "manager" role. This username and password are defined in the tomcat-users.xml file that is in your user directory.

tip  You can only use the usernames and passwords that are defined in the IDE's user directory's tomcat-users.xml file, and not those that are in the IDE's installation directory.

During installation, the IDE generates a user called "ide" that is assigned the "manager" role. This user is created in your user directory's tomcat-users.xml file.

To get the password for the "ide" username from your user directory:

  1. Select Help > About from the main menu and choose the Detail tab.
  2. Make a note of the path to the User Dir folder.
  3. In your file system, go to your User Dir and then to the jakarta-tomcat-5.5.x_base\conf folder.
  4. Open the tomcat-users.xml file and make a note of the password that is defined for the "ide" username.
tip  The username and password are not saved when you enter them in this dialog box. The username and password are only saved if you define them in the Tomcat Web Server's Properties dialog box. To open the Properties dialog box, right-click the Tomcat Web Server's instance node in the Runtime window and select Properties.
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