Apache Tomcat/7.0.21 username password not working.

Hi there;

I have Tomcat/7.0.21 coming with Windows XAMPP. When I try to go into Tomcat Manager, I end up with a username password box.

I didn't know the credentials (whether I set it before or not), so I tried to assign/change.

I add the following credentials, yet still the same problem which is:

type Status report

message Access to the requested resource has been denied

description Access to the specified resource (Access to the requested resource has been denied) has been forbidden.

Configuration of my tomcat-users.xml is as follows. What to do? I even don't need to set any credential for this.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!--
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  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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-->
<tomcat-users>
<!--
  NOTE:  By default, no user is included in the "manager-gui" role required
  to operate the "/manager/html" web application.  If you wish to use this app,
  you must define such a user - the username and password are arbitrary.
-->
<!--
  NOTE:  The sample user and role entries below are wrapped in a comment
  and thus are ignored when reading this file. Do not forget to remove
  <!.. ..> that surrounds them.
-->
<!--
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
-->
<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="tomcat"/>
</tomcat-users>

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Regards.