posted 12 years ago
Welcome to the JavaRanch, Antonio!
1. Ensure that the admin webapp is installed.
2. Configure the security system. This means uncommenting and/or customizing the security configuration in server.xml. Also, when using the default xml-configured Realm, ensure that an admin user is defined in tomcat-users.xml and that the appropriate roles have been defined.
The hard part line in determining the role names to define and grant, as they have recently changed and you have to read the docs closely to understand what they are.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.