Tomcat Manager isn't working under red5 embedded Tomcat

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Copy manager webapp from official Tomcat release to webapps dir under red5
2.start red5
3.access http://127.0.0.1:5080/manager/status

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Manager should be working but I got an error:
"Servlet of class org.apache.catalina.manager.host.HostManagerServlet is 
privileged and cannot be loaded by this web application".
I have context.xml under webapps/manager/META-INF indicating privileged="true"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Red5-1.0.1 on Windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Stif...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2013 at 2:09

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This problem is now has dirty workaround:

log.debug("Context initialized: {}", servletContext.getContextPath());
ctx.setPrivileged(true); <===add this line in TomcatLoader
//set the hosts id
servletContext.setAttribute("red5.host.id", getHostId());

I believe that it should be replaced with ctx.setDefaultContextXml to load 
correct context.xml under META-INF folder of a certain webapp

Original comment by Stif...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2013 at 8:14

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This has to do with using the Tomcat manager, which we have never supported. 
Its great that you have a workaround, but its not something we will add at this 
time. Be aware that the tomcat manager has no understanding of a red5 
application nor does it know that the red5 app has to be initialized prior to 
starting its own context.

Original comment by mondain on 9 Jun 2013 at 4:26

• Changed state: WontFix

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I update to the latest red5 from trunk (August 29th) and the war files in the 
webapps directory are extracted (the directory for the app is created) but the 
launcher doesn't launch the apps. The war files don't get deleted as well. I 
have to stop and restart the red5 server for it to work and I'll get the 
message the app is already installed. logs is attached. Issue occurs even with 
the oflaDemo app. To reproduce drop the war files to the webapps directory and 
start red5. I would appreciate any help.

2013-09-13 11:27:52,471 [main] INFO  o.a.catalina.core.StandardEngine - 
Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.41
2013-09-13 11:28:11,129 [Red5_Scheduler_Worker-2] WARN  
org.red5.server.service.WarDeployer - Loader not found

Original comment by jdn...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2013 at 9:23

Attachments:

• red5.log

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We don't support tomcat manager see #2

Original comment by mondain on 13 Sep 2013 at 9:53