WebGoat installing instruction under Ubuntu

WebGoat installing instruction

you can run this tutorial under any debian family distro but not other platform

1. sudo apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin
2. sudoedit /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml
3. edit tomcat-users.xml like below
4. sudo service tomcat7 force-reload
5. open http://your-server.net:8080/manager/html and upload your war file
6. open http://your-server.net:8080/WebGoat-X.X and enjoy your hack. (admin interface will show the path)

tomcat-users.xml configure example

tomcat-users.xml should looks like below

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!--
  ...
-->
<tomcat-users>
<!--
  ...
-->
  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="tomcat,admin-gui,manager-gui,webgoat_user,webgoat_admin"/>
  <user username="guest" password="guest" roles="tomcat,webgoat_user,guest"/>
</tomcat-users>