Tomcat deployement issue in a Maven project

Question

I have been trying to create a simple maven web based project to be confident about maven. I have added tomcat7 plugin in my pom.xml to use it as a server. But when i started to deploy my war file to tomcat by using

tomcat7:deploy

it is throwing an error as follows,

[INFO] Deploying war to http://127.0.0.1:8080/MavenWeb  
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 13.585s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Jan 30 16:03:06 IST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 9M/24M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0:deploy  (default-cli) on project MavenWeb: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection to http://127.0.0.1:8080 refused: Connection refused -> [Help 1]

My plugin section in pom.xml is as follows.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <configuration>
       <url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/html</url>
       <warFile>/home/shebin/Maven Folder/MavenWeb/target/MavenWeb.war</warFile>
   <server>TomcatServer</server>
       <path>/MavenWeb</path>
   <username>tomcat</username>
       <password>tomcat</password>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

.m2/settings.xml and /home/shebin/apache-maven-3.0.4/conf/settings.xml

<server>
        <id>TomcatServer</id>
        <username>tomcat</username>
        <password>tomcat</password>
</server>

/home/shebin/apache-tomcat-7.0.35/conf/tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager-gui"/>

I have came through various solution and nothing is working in my way. My Maven version is 3.0.4 and using tomcat7 plugin.

Did you first verify that you can deploy a WAR file directly in the tomcat manager web interface? — chad, Jan 30 '13 at 15:56

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '14 at 03:28

The url in configuration of maven plugin should be <url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/text</url> which corresponds to the role manager-script.

Also, it is worth noted that after changing the roles in {TOMCAT_HOME}/conf/tomcat-users.xml, you have to restart the tomcat server for reloading the configuration. I know this is a common sense, but my experience told me that some of you may really stuck at here.

JustDanyul · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-30T14:37:21.067

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This error message

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0:deploy  (default-cli) on project MavenWeb: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection to http://127.0.0.1:8080 refused: Connection refused -> [Help 1]

insinuates this is authentication related. Try and change this

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager-gui"/>

to

<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager-script"/>

Access from the maven plugin will not happen over the browser based admin client :)

edited Jan 30 '13 at 14:37

answered Jan 30 '13 at 11:32

JustDanyul

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Its too not working. still the same error. Also what you mean by "Access from the maven plugin will not happen over the browser based admin client".. – Mohammed shebin Jan 30 '13 at 11:59
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the role you specified "mananger-gui" gives users who have that role access to the HTML based admin gui. All I meant is that the maven plug-in wont be deploying the war though the gui, so it is the wrong role to use. Try the role manager-script instead :) – JustDanyul Jan 30 '13 at 14:37

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 15:10

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I ran into the same issue. You'll need to add an extra role to the mix: manager-jmx. So your tomcat-users.xml file should have.

<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="manager-script, manager-jmx"/>

answered Mar 21 '14 at 15:10

Belden Schroeder

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 14 '18 at 12:45

I got this working too thanks to points in this post.. Things I got stuck on were: The POM file - you need a slash on the beginning of the path (or it tried to install it under /manager/ and fails):

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <url>http://10.54.17.35:8080/manager/text</url>
        <server>LoginForTomcat</server>
        <path>/displayService</path>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

provide server credentials in ~/.m2/settings.xml:

<servers>
    <server>
        <id>LoginForTomcat</id>
        <username>figgy</username>
        <password>passw0rd</password>
    </server>
</servers>

On the tomcat server, you need to define manager-script and manager-jmx:

  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
  <user username="figgy" password="passw0rd" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx"/>

Looking over this everything here is in the posts above, posting this to clarify things.

Tomcat deployement issue in a Maven project

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