tomcat7-maven-plugin tomcatManager status code:403, ReasonPhrase:Forbbiden

Question

I am trying to do mvn clean package tomcat7:deploy but always I get this error: tomcatManager status code:403, ReasonPhrase:Forbbiden

My config

Answer 1

Enough to do like this

pom.xml

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.0</version>
  <configuration>
    <path>/mywebapp</path>
    <update>true</update>
    <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
    <username>tomcat</username>
    <password>tomcat</password>
  </configuration>
</plugin> 

tomcat-users.xml

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

From http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.0/index.html

Use http://localhost:8080/manager/text rather than the default tomcat6 url.

Answer 2

This error will also appear if the same WAR with the same name has already been deployed to tomcat.

Answer 3

There is some misunderstanding about role name and the last part of the URL:

Originally in tomcat-usres.xml there was only "tomcat" user (role tomcat), user "both" (tomcat + role1) but no admin role. It seems that the last part of the URL equals to role name in some aspect ...

This worked for me (otherwise I always got 403 even provided correct user + password):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,tomcat"/>
  <user username="admin" password="tomcat" roles="admin,tomcat"/>
</tomcat-users>

Answer 4

Url is not correct use:

<tomcat-url>http://localhost:8080/manager/html</tomcat-url>

Answer 5

Wanted to add this as a comment, but do not have enough reputation score to do so.

Adding this as an answer as it may be helpful for someone. I was getting the exactly same errors while trying to deploy on tomcat7 using eclipse, and was still not working after trying above solutions. finally I tried outside eclipse using commandline(cmd) and it worked like a charm. obviously I needed to install maven on my machine and then set M2_Home user variable and path variable pointing to M2_HOME/bin.

Thanks.

Answer 6

I had same problem. But I found following solution of this problem:

pom.xml

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <configuration>
      <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
      <server>localhost</server>
      <path>/${project.build.finalName}</path>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

~/.m2/settings.xml

<servers>
<server>
   <id>localhost</id>
   <username>admin</username>
   <password>s3cret</password>
</server>

tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<user username="admin" password="s3cret" roles="manager-script"/>

After changing tomcat-users.xml do not forget to restart the server. Also do not assign the manager-gui role with the manager-script to the same user.