Apache Tomcat Password?

Question

I'm using dsBudget to manage my budgeting software. It's an apache tomcat web app.

Would anyone know how I can password protect it? Basically it is designed to work on a local machine, but I want to access it from multiple locations (which i can, but its not passworded)

Would anyone know how I can achieve this?

Answer 1

Tomcat can be configured to password protect the contents of a web app. Here is a tutorial about setting it up.

1. Create tomcat-users.xml similar to this:

   <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
   <tomcat-users>
     <role rolename="tomcat"/>
     <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
     <user username="myname" password="mypassword" roles="tomcat"/>
     <user username="test" password="test"/>
   </tomcat-users>
   

2. Configure the web.xml for the web app to use the basic authentication by adding the following into the <web-app> section:

   <login-config>
       <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
   </login-config>