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.

Answer 1

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 🙂