http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/Apache_Tomcat_on_CentOS/RedHat manual jdk operation .bin # ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0/bin/java /usr/bin/java # ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0/bin/javac /usr/bin/javac Utenti $CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml (/opt/tomcat/...) and append the following line at second last line. Then restrat tomcat you will be able to login to tomcat with http://IP:8080/manager/html