Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli)

Question

i am trying to do mvn tomcat:deploy and i came across with the error

 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project appanalytix: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection refused: connect -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project appanalytix: Cannot invoke
Tomcat manager
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:217)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320)
    at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
    at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
    at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.AbstractCatalinaMojo.execute(AbstractCatalinaMojo.java:149)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.AbstractWarCatalinaMojo.execute(AbstractWarCatalinaMojo.java:70)
    at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
    ... 19 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
    at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
    at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:69)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:157)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:391)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:180)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:378)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:473)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:203)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:290)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:995)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:931)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:849)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.TomcatManager.invoke(TomcatManager.java:597)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.TomcatManager.deployImpl(TomcatManager.java:662)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.TomcatManager.deploy(TomcatManager.java:295)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.AbstractDeployWarMojo.deployWar(AbstractDeployWarMojo.java:85)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.AbstractDeployMojo.invokeManager(AbstractDeployMojo.java:85)
    at org.codehaus.mojo.tomcat.AbstractCatalinaMojo.execute(AbstractCatalinaMojo.java:141)

in maven\conf\settings.xml

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

in tomcat-7.0.39\conf\tomcat-users

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

pom.xml

  <plugin>
 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<configuration>
    <mode>war</mode>
    <url>http://localhost:8080/manager</url>
    <server>TomcatServer</server>
    <path>/appanalytix</path>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

i have tried using /text and /html from but that doesn't worked ,please help me to solve this

Solution 1

First you must be aware of the move of the tomcat-maven-plugin to the apache software foundation Second you shouldn't put configuration stuff into maven/conf/settings.xml you should use the users settings.xml file HOME/.m2/settings.xml instead.

Apart from the above you should use the following URL for accessing Tomcat:

http://localhost:8080/manager/html

Solution 2

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

Comments

[Ramsharan]

I had a problem because I had not add /html at the end of http://localhost:8080/manager.

[8bitjunkie]

Did not work for me (same configuration). This is not a deterministic solution.

[8bitjunkie]

Thank you for a comprehensive and deterministic answer (which should be the accepted answer).

[Kent Bull]

@sancho21 running mvn tomcat7:redeploy on Mac OS X Yosemite gives an error with version 2.0 of the plugin. Version 2.2 works just fine with tomcat7:redeploy.

[zygimantus]

I have Tomcat 8 server and mvn tomcat7:redeploy still works!