The other night I was baffled as to why I could get my Linux server running with Tomcat properly doing BASIC authentication, whereas my desktop development environment would not authenticate through Eclipse to the same URI. Well it turns out, that when you have a web project in Eclipse, while the Tomcat binaries are run from your tomcat install, it uses a separate "set" of configuration files when run in Eclipse. Therefore, my
tomcat-users.xml that existed in my tomcat installation location was being completely ignored in favor of the Eclipse configuration file. Once I discovered this, I was able to quickly get BASIC authentication to work (which is fine for testing purposes). Below is an example of how this shows up in the Eclipse Package Explorer:
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