[CentOS] 5.4 and tomcat5

[rray_1 at comcast.net]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

>> I set up a 5.4 server with tomcat5
>> All standard packages from CentOS repo
>> I can not seem to access the tomcat manager from a remote host
>> I can access the tomcat admin remotely
>> I have a manager role and user defined in tomcat-users.xml
>> Attempting to access the manager gets me
>>
>> HTTP Status 403 - Access to the requested resource has been denied
> <snip>
> Sounds like a firewall issue to me, but I'd check the logfiles.
>
>       mark
>

No firewall running

# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

The are no errors in catalina.out
Also I have a CentOS 5.4 runnig tomcat6 downloaded from apache
I have no problem remotely accessing manager
We also have other Linux runnig tomcat from packages and they have no 
problem accessing the manager remotely
It "appears" to be particular to the CentOS package
I do not know enough about tomcat to fix this package

Richard