On 3/9/2010 9:08 AM, rray_1 at comcast.net wrote: > 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 A 403 response means you reached the web server network-wise but the server is denying access because it is configured to restrict clients and you haven't authenticated correctly. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com