tomcat:deploy: "Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection refused"

Question

I tried to deploy my app to Tomcat using Maven and I've found this sample.

That's fragment of my pom.xml:

    <!-- Maven Tomcat Plugin -->     <plugin>         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>         <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>         <configuration>             <url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/</url>             <server>TomcatServer</server>         </configuration>     </plugin>     <!-- Maven compiler plugin -->     <plugin>         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>         <configuration>             <source>1.6</source>             <target>1.6</target>         </configuration>     </plugin> 

And when I run tomcat:deploy I get this error: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection refused. That's full stacktrace:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project webapp: 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 webapp: 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:39)     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)     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)     at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:47)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)     at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120) 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)     ... 25 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:351)     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:213)     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:200)     at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529)     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)     at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:163)     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:388)     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:523)     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:227)     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:300)     at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:317)     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:970)     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:911)     at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:836)     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)     ... 28 more 

I didn't want to use authentication so I just skipped those steps. I thought that this may cause my error, but when I tried to add them, nothing changed. Do you know where's my mistake?

UPD: Sorry, but I can't check our solutions because I'm not working on this project anymore. But I will not close this question so if you think that your solution will work feel free to left it here and may be it will help to someone.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. In my case I fix it with run run-war instead of deploy for Tomcat7 with configuration:

         <plugin>             <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>             <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>             <version>2.2</version>             <configuration>                 <url>http://localhost:8080</url>                 <path>/</path>             </configuration>         </plugin> 

Answer 2

When using the tomcat 7 plugin, do the following:

pom.xml

<plugin>     <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>     <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>     <version>2.2</version>     <configuration>         <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>         <server>tomcatserver</server>         <path>/mycontext</path>         <username>admin</username>         <password>admin</password>     </configuration> </plugin> 

settings.xml

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

tomcat-users.xml

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

run

mvn tomcat7:deploy