Tomcat keeps resetting my tomcat-users.xml file

Question

I am new to Java/Tomcat development and I am seeing this issue where my tomcat-users.xml file keeps getting reset. My user keeps getting removed and I'm not sure why. I am launching my application from Eclipse that is being deployed to this Tomcat instance.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0

VM Arguments

-Dcatalina.base="C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0" -Dcatalina.home="C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0" -Dwtp.deploy="C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\wtpwebapps" -Djava.endorsed.dirs="C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\endorsed"

Answer 1

I updated the tomcat-users.xml file under Servers in Project Explorer. That seems to be copying it over to the real Tomcat Server.

Answer 2

Please try this :

• Go to tomcat's conf folder and open the server.xml file, in the file between 'GlobalNamingResources' tags you will get 'Resource' tag , add readonly="true" and thats all you need.