Maven auto deployment to tomcat6 failure, deploying to incorrect URL

Question

I'm trying auto deploy war file to apache-tomcat-server(6.0.33) using tomcat-maven-plugin6, but on tomcat:deploy command, maven(3.5.1/1.5.1.xxx EclipseIDE-embedded) is trying to install to incorrect URL (localhost:8080/webapplication), I have seen similar Q&A here (1,2) but it's answers does not solved my problem. Please find more details below.

Settings.xml

  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>localhost</id>
      <username>admin</username>
      <password>admin</password>
    </server>
  </servers>

pom.xml

<plugin>
    <groupId> org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0-beta-1</version>
    <configuration>
        <url>http://localhost:8080/manager</url>
        <!-- <username>usr</username> <password>pwd</password> -->
        <server>localhost</server>
        <path>/datatest</path>
        <warFile>target/service-manager.war</warFile>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Maven Console:

[INFO] <<< tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) @ service-manager <<<
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) @ service-manager ---
[INFO] Deploying war to http://localhost:8080/service-manager  
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Data manager ...................................... SUCCESS [  7.454 s]
[INFO] Business Manager .................................. SUCCESS [  0.109 s]
[INFO] Core module ....................................... SUCCESS [  6.699 s]
[INFO] Booter Application ................................ SUCCESS [  1.016 s]
[INFO] Booter Service Webapp ............................. FAILURE [ 33.289 s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 49.099 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-08-09T16:09:15+05:30
[INFO] Final Memory: 21M/121M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project service-manager: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=%2Fservice-manager&war= -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project service-manager: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager

Setting both the `` and the `` probably confuses the plugin and causes it to ignore the `` mention (I agree - it shouldn't really have been coded that way). It looks like the `war` in your case is in the default location with the default name, so try removing the `` mention and see if it causes the `` setting to not be ignored. — mystarrocks, Aug 09 '15 at 11:50

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '15 at 01:58

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I think the url should be http://localhost:8080/manager/text (you missed the /text).

answered Aug 10 '15 at 01:58

Niklas P

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I think for tomcat6: http://localhost:8080/manager and for tomcat7: http://localhost:8080/manager/text is the URL Please correct me if I am wrong. – Nithin CV Aug 10 '15 at 06:45
Sorry, you're right - /manager/text is the url for tomcat7. Sorry for that. I think @mystarrocks 's answer could be the right one - try NOT to use path and warFile in parallel. – Niklas P Aug 10 '15 at 08:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 17 '16 at 12:44

I was having same behaviour and maybe you're trying to invoke the wrong maven goal.

First be sure your username and password are informed acoording to Tomcat conf/tomcat-users.xml configuration.

Second, if you are deploying on Tomcat 6, try using tomcat6:deploy or tomcat6:redeploy goal (instead of tomcat:deploy). Worked for me.

Some advices:

If it's not a requirement, better use last stable version of the plugin 2.2 http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.2/
I've never used warFile property, are you using it because there are several wars on target folder? If not, isn't necessary specify it.

Maven auto deployment to tomcat6 failure, deploying to incorrect URL

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