In order to make it work, please follow the instructions below:
- Make sure you have JAVA 11 or JAVA 17 (only - (JDK and not only JRE) is running on your laptop
- Get Tomcat 9 (not version 10) - prefer the Core > Zip from here
- Configure under /conf/tomcat-users.xml the code below
- [LINUX / MAC] Please make sure you have running permissions on the /bin/ directory and run chmod +x *.sh
- Restart tomcat /bin/shutdown.sh & startup.sh (for non-Windows OS) or /bin/shutdown.bat & startup.bat
- The Tomcat URL is http://localhost:8080/
- The application URL is http://localhost:8080/helloworld/
- Have more fun!
<tomcat-users> <role rolename="manager-gui" /> <role rolename="admin-gui" /> <role rolename="manager-script" /> <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui,manager-script" /> </tomcat-users>