Tomcat deployement issue in a Maven project

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

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

to

Access from the maven plugin will not happen over the browser based admin client :)