tomcat-maven-plugin 403 error

Question

When I use mvn tomcat:deploy of tomcat-maven-plugin there is a 403 error:

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.0:deploy (default-cli) on pr

Answer 1

If you are using version 7, there's a catch: the access to the /manager/text resource is not enabled by default.

You must create a user with the role mananger-script, as it says in the documentation

It would be quite unsafe to ship Tomcat with default settings that allowed anyone
on the Internet to execute the Manager application on your server.
Therefore, the Manager application is shipped with the requirement that anyone
who attempts to use it must authenticate themselves, using a username and
password that have the role manager-script associated with them.
Further, there is no username in the default users file
($CATALINA_BASE/conf/tomcat-users.xml) that is assigned this role.
Therefore, access to the Manager application is completely disabled by default.

To enable access to the Manager web application, you must either create a new
username/password combination and associate the role name manager-script with it,
or add the manager-script role to some existing username/password combination.

Hope it helps :)