How do you enable BASIC authentication using Tomcat?
Created May 4, 2012
Theo Mills [Question continues: I'm able to get the dialog box requesting the username and password to pop up, however, even though I insert
one of the usernames and passwords from the tomcat-users.xml
file, I always get an "Authorization failed. Retry?"
dialog.]
Make sure that the user has been designated a role in the tomcat-users.xml that matches the role(s) defined in the auth-constraint section of the web.xml:
web.xml:
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>role1</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
tomcat-users.xml:
<tomcat-users>
<user name="test" password="tomcat" roles="role1" />
</tomcat-users>
Does this help?