password protect your Tomcat powered project

At work we’re in the middle of the development of a new Tomcat powered bioinformatics application, and have reached the stage were you have to show it to some peers but not make it publicly available. I do have an ubuntu 12.04 LTS server, so I took the most out of this Randeep’s post:

password protected directory in Tomcat →

Here it is how to do it in few steps:

1. Add user, password and role in conf/tomcat-users.xml
2. In the webapps/examples/WEB-INF/web.xml specify role, method and urls.
3. Restart Tomcat and check the result

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