Why is tomcat-maven-plugin trying to deploy to the wrong URL?

Question

I am creating a dummy maven project with two modules, and I have included a general pom.xml file. I am able to build from the root pom.xml file and run all the tests but when it comes to deploying the files to Tomcat, it falls down. The plugin I have is:

<build>
    <finalName>dummy</finalName>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <url>http://127.0.0.1:8090/manager/text</url>
                <server>TomcatServer</server>
                <path>/dummy</path>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

settings.xml

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

However, when I run the build it uses the default configuration values and I get the following error message:

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project webapp: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=%2Fwebapp&war= -> [Help 1]

Does anyone know how I can get the plugin to be using my config?

More output:

[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-war) @ webapp ---
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [webapp] in [C:\Websites\www.dummy.app\webapp\target\webapp]
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [C:\Websites\www.dummy.app\webapp\src\main\webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [15 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: C:\Websites\www.dummy.app\webapp\target\webapp.war
[WARNING] Warning: selected war files include a WEB-INF/web.xml which will be ignored
(webxml attribute is missing from war task, or ignoreWebxml attribute is specified as 'true')
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) @ webapp <<<
[INFO]
[INFO] --- tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) @ webapp ---
[INFO] Deploying war to http://localhost:8080/webapp
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] my-app ............................................ SUCCESS [4.747s]
[INFO] webapp ............................................ FAILURE [3.313s]
[INFO] dummy ............................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 9.376s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jan 23 22:46:11 GMT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 18M/245M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project webapp: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=%2Fwebapp&war= -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
[ERROR]
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <goals> -rf :webapp

Thanks

Answer 1

<properties>
   <maven.tomcat.url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</maven.tomcat.url>
</properties>

Fixed it for me.

Answer 2

Try using version 2.0-beta-1 of the plugin.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MTOMCAT-68