What is the default password for Tomcat, Is there any ?

Below are the steps tested on Tomcat to set or to create default password of tomcat to Start, Stop, Reload and Redeploy your applications.

For Tomcat 7 and 8:

There is not any default password in tomcat. 

Without users, no one can access manager page of the tomcat.

To do so, we need to create user for tomcat.

Tomcat provide the features to create users in its configuration file which is 

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-user.xml

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-user.xml   (DEFAULT)

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-user.xml   (after adding a user)

After doing this, restart or start your server.

Now open http://localhost:8080/manager default manage URL in browser, you will see a pop up to enter username and password. Enter user=admin and password= admin

Above steps are common for Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8.

 

For Tomcat 6 

Add user as role manager

$TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-user.xml   (after adding a user)

<role rolename="manager"/>

       <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager"/>

</tomcat-users>