On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > > How do I find what is denying access since there are not error messages in the log files: httpd/error_log, httpd/access_log, tomcat5/catalina.out, messages, and secure