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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?

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The following way works for me.

  1. 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>

  2. 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"/>

  3. 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>

  4. Deploy using mvn tomcat7:redeploy

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

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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..

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

works as well.

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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

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remove the trailing spaces in the roles="..."
can you connect to localhost:8081/manager/text ? do you see FAIL - Unknown command /text ? Have you the UserDatabase configured in the server.xml ?

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