Managing Tomcat

For security, access to the manager webapp is restricted. Users are defined in:

$CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml

In Tomcat 8.5 access to the manager application is split between different users.   Read more...

Release Notes

Changelog

Migration Guide

Security Notices

Documentation

Tomcat 8.5 Documentation

Tomcat 8.5 Configuration

Tomcat Wiki

Find additional important configuration information in:

$CATALINA_HOME/RUNNING.txt

Developers may be interested in:

• Tomcat 8.5 Bug Database
• Tomcat 8.5 JavaDocs
• Tomcat 8.5 Git Repository at GitHub

Getting Help

FAQ and Mailing Lists

The following mailing lists are available:

• tomcat-announce
  Important announcements, releases, security vulnerability notifications. (Low volume).
• tomcat-users
  User support and discussion
• taglibs-user
  User support and discussion for Apache Taglibs
• tomcat-dev
  Development mailing list, including commit messages