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?

Answer 1

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..