tomcat7 maven plugin deploy fails

Question

I am having trouble in deploying to remote machine with tomcat installed as aservice. My tomcat-users is as follows:

<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="tomcat, admin, manager-gui, manager-script"/>

</tomcat-users>

My settings.xml is:

<settings>
<pluginGroups>
<pluginGroup>org.apache.tomcat.maven</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>
<servers>
<server>
  <id>tomcat7</id>
  <username>admin</username>
  <password>admin</password>
</server>

</servers>

</settings>

And my pom.xml has the following:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <server>tomcat7</server>
                    <url>http://localhost:8081/manager/text</url>
                    <warFile>target/editor-${project.version}.war</warFile>
                </configuration>

And I keep on getting the 401 Unauthorized on the output of maven console. Can you tell me what am I doing wrong?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3714080/tomcat-7-maven-plugin — Paulius Matulionis, Nov 06 '12 at 12:45
You can see my answer in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16230666/failed-to-execute-goal-org-codehaus-mojotomcat-maven-plugin1-1deploy-default/16292897#16292897 — sancho21, Apr 30 '13 at 05:41
See my answer on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16230666/failed-to-execute-goal-org-codehaus-mojotomcat-maven-plugin1-1deploy-default/16292897#16292897 — sancho21, Apr 30 '13 at 05:43

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '13 at 05:45

The following way works for me.

Please change your pom.xml to include

<project>
    ...
    <build>    
        <plugins>    
        ....
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
                    <server>my-tomcat</server>
                    <path>/myapp</path>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
        ...
    </build>
    ...
</project>

Make sure your Tomcat 7 server have the following lines on TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml:

<!-- Role to manage WAR files via HTML /manager. The name should be as is! -->
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<!-- Role to manage WAR files via script like Maven. The name should be as is! -->
<role rolename="manager-script"/>

<!-- One user cannot have manager-gui and manager-script roles -->
<user username="managerGui" password="managerPwd" roles="manager-gui"/>
<user username="manager" password="managerPwd" roles="manager-script"/>

Configure your USER_HOME/.m2/settings.xml to include the password.

<settings>
    ...
    <servers>
        ...
        <server>
            <id>my-tomcat</id>
            <username>manager</username>
            <password>managerPwd</password>
        </server>
    </servers>

</settings>

Deploy using mvn tomcat7:redeploy

Read more on http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/manager-howto.html

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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try to run mvn with -x -e then you will see what kind of info is sending to server. my guess is that the server doesnt get username/pass. which means something wrong with the configuration file i.e:settings.xml

how does tomcat7-maven-plugin knows where settings.xml is ?

EDIT: check out this which-maven-settings-xml-files

elek offered there to run mvn with -X and in the begining you see "Reading user settings from .user/.m2/settings.xml..

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Nov 08 '12 at 14:08

oak

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Indeed this was the issue. Settings xml was taken from different location. I assumed the correct one to be used is from C:\.m2\settings.xml, however the one from C:\users\.m2 was taken. Thx for help – Arek Nov 12 '12 at 09:36

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '13 at 17:24

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mvn tomcat7:redeploy -Dtomcat.username=tomcatscript -Dtomcat.password=s3cret

works as well.

answered Mar 22 '13 at 17:24

Todd

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 06 '12 at 10:54

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You should declare all the roles in the tomcat-users.xml:

<role rolename="tomcat"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>

HIH

answered Nov 06 '12 at 10:54

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remove the trailing spaces in the roles="..." – poussma Nov 06 '12 at 13:51
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can you connect to http://localhost:8081/manager/text ? do you see FAIL - Unknown command /text ? Have you the UserDatabase configured in the server.xml ? – poussma Nov 06 '12 at 14:07

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