diff --git a/resources/tomcat/conf/server.xml b/resources/tomcat/conf/server.xml
index 0b94ee9cde..01f2ee2c06 100644
--- a/resources/tomcat/conf/server.xml
+++ b/resources/tomcat/conf/server.xml
@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@
     <Listener className='org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener'/>
 
     <Service name='Catalina'>
-        <Connector port='${http.port}' bindOnInit="false"/>
+        <Connector 
+			port='${http.port}' 
+			bindOnInit="false"
+			compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,application/json,application/javascript"
+			compression="on"/>
 
         <Engine defaultHost='localhost' name='Catalina'>
+
             <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve" protocolHeader="x-forwarded-proto"/>
             <Valve className="com.gopivotal.cloudfoundry.tomcat.logging.access.CloudFoundryAccessLoggingValve"
                    pattern='[ACCESS] %h %l %t %D %F %B %S vcap_request_id:%{X-Vcap-Request-Id}i' enabled="${access.logging.enabled}"/>
diff --git a/resources/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml b/resources/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..90fe62f48d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='cp1252'?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  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
+  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  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
+  limitations under the License.
+-->
+<tomcat-users>
+<role rolename="interactive-gui"/>
+<user username="taahoth1" password="mypass" roles="interactive-gui" />
+<!--
+  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"/>
+-->
+</tomcat-users>