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 Eclipse with the plugin m2eclipse and you still have this error after trying these solutions, it could be because this plugin has not the manager included. You should download Tomcat separately and configure Eclipse to use it (check this link: tomcat-maven-plugin: Server returned HTTP response code: 403)