Tomcat 8 - Can't access manager app

Question

When I try to access the manager app on my Tomcat server I run into HTTP 404 status:

The requested resource is not available.

To gain access to the manager app I did the following:

Edited the [TOMCAT_HOME]/conf/tomcat-users.xml and created a new user:

<tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml"
              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd" version="1.0">
  <role rolename="admin-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="admin" password="password" roles="manager-gui,admin-gui"/>
</tomcat-users>

Edited the [TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml and allowed access from anywhere:

<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" >
  <!--<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
     allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />-->
</Context>

Then I restarted my Tomcat server. I can enter the http://server_domain_or_IP:8080 page but when I click on the link to the manager webapp, I'm faced with the HTTP 404 status.

Dis you check in the log, if there is some errors or warnings? — Ortomala Lokni, Feb 07 '17 at 21:15
I went to [TOMCAT_HOME]/logs and opened the manager.2017-02-07.log. It's empty. — Richard Silvertass, Feb 07 '17 at 21:18
No, I'm running the tomcat server on my droplet on DigitalOcean. — Richard Silvertass, Feb 07 '17 at 21:25
In the [TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps I have docs, examples, host-manager, manager and ROOT. — Richard Silvertass, Feb 07 '17 at 21:27
Did you read this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38469496/cant-access-tomcat-8-manager-app ? — Milaci, Feb 07 '17 at 21:29
Yes but I'm not getting HTTP 403 status. Also, the solution does not apply to me. I have edited the correct context.xml. — Richard Silvertass, Feb 07 '17 at 21:31
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/135118/discussion-between-milaci-and-richard-silvertass). — Milaci, Feb 07 '17 at 21:36

Tomcat 8 - Can't access manager app

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