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(JDK 1.4.2_05, netBeans 4.0, external Tomcat 5.5.4) When external Tomcat is added into IDE without previously editing (external_tomcat_home)/conf/tomcat-users.xml (later in here referred to as tomcat-users.xml), IDE throws no warning that it's unable to list deployed webapps. UI looks like there are no webapps deployed. This strongly affects new user experience. User needs to edit tomcat-users.xml manually, without being given any hint from IDE. This includes adding <role rolename="manager"/> <user username="<some_username>" password="<some_password>" roles="manager"/> lines into tomcat-users.xml. Proposed solutions: 0) document this 1) IDE should NOT list Webapplications node from external Tomcat at all, unless it's configured correctly. 2) Warning window should appear, telling user to verify/do necessary changes in tomcat-users.xml
This problem occurs if you use any of the default username:password combinations from tomcat-users.xml (tomcat:tomcat, role1:tomcat, both:tomcat).
Setting target milestone to 4.1.
Currently the registration wizard requires the username and password with option to create such login.