how to log in Tomcat administration page

downloaded apache-tomcat-6.0.10

OS:window xp

Tomcat's servlets/JSPs execute fine, but Tomcat denies access to the Tomcat Manager, Tomcat Administration to log in for web application with database connection.

The respective webapps and manager.xml and admin.xml are available and seem to look fine.

Tomcat even seems to log in my default user

tomcat and password tomcat or admin | admin .

error message;invalid user and password.

how can I log in?

[517 byte] By [jin412a] at [2007-11-27 5:57:07]
# 1
Edit tomcat-users.xml
dcmintera at 2007-7-12 16:29:31 > top of Java-index,Database Connectivity,Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)...
# 2

i]I edit tomcat-user [roles=manager, admin user name:admin password:admin] I am sure tomcat-user.xml is correct

would see the following error message after try to log in tomcat admin page, it happens not only this computer but also my laptop

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /index.jsp:16

13: <% AccessDB accessDB=new AccessDB(); %>

14:

15: <%-- create an instance of List, then retrieve SubjectNames --%>

16: <% List subjNames=accessDB.getSubjectName(); %>

17:

18: <%-- make list accessible to page --%>

19: <% request.setAttribute("subjNames", subjNames); %>

Stacktrace:

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:504)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:393)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:368)

root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException

org.AccessDB.getSubjectName(AccessDB.java:82)

org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:54)

org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:368)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.17 logs.

jin412a at 2007-7-12 16:29:31 > top of Java-index,Database Connectivity,Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)...