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

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Fran b picture Fran b · Nov 12, 2012 · Viewed 19.5k times · Source

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

My configurations are the next:

~/.m2/settings.xml

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

pom.xml

  <profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>tomcat-localhost</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <tomcat-server>localhost</tomcat-server>
            <tomcat-url>http://localhost:8080/manager/html</tomcat-url>
        </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

  <build>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.0</version>
        <configuration>
            <server>${tomcat-server}</server>
            <url>${tomcat-url}</url>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

tomcat-users.xml

  <role rolename="manager-gui"/>  
  <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/>

What is my mistake? Because I don't see it.

Complete message error:

[INFO] --- tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0:deploy (default-cli) @ WebApp ---
[INFO] Deploying war to http://localhost:8080/Baskeitor  
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/html/deploy?path=%2FWebApp
Uploaded: http://localhost:8080/manager/html/deploy?path=%2FWebApp (7985 KB at 50215.2 KB/sec)

[INFO] tomcatManager status code:403, ReasonPhrase:Prohibido
[INFO] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
[INFO] <html>
[INFO]  <head>
[INFO]   <title>403 Access Denied</title>
[INFO]   <style type="text/css">
[INFO]     <!--
[INFO]     BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;font-size:12px;}
[INFO]     H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;}
[INFO]     PRE, TT {border: 1px dotted #525D76}
[INFO]     A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}
[INFO]     -->
[INFO]   </style>
[INFO]  </head>
[INFO]  <body>
[INFO]    <h1>403 Access Denied</h1>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     You are not authorized to view this page.
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     If you have already configured the Manager application to allow access and
[INFO]     you have used your browsers back button, used a saved book-mark or similar
[INFO]     then you may have triggered the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection
[INFO]     that has been enabled for the HTML interface of the Manager application. You
[INFO]     will need to reset this protection by returning to the
[INFO]     <a href="/manager/html">main Manager page</a>. Once you
[INFO]     return to this page, you will be able to continue using the Manager
[INFO]     appliction's HTML interface normally. If you continue to see this access
[INFO]     denied message, check that you have the necessary permissions to access this
[INFO]     application.
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     If you have not changed
[INFO]     any configuration files, please examine the file
[INFO]     <tt>conf/tomcat-users.xml</tt> in your installation. That
[INFO]     file must contain the credentials to let you use this webapp.
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     For example, to add the <tt>manager-gui</tt> role to a user named
[INFO]     <tt>tomcat</tt> with a password of <tt>s3cret</tt>, add the following to the
[INFO]     config file listed above.
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO] <pre>
[INFO] &lt;role rolename="manager-gui"/&gt;
[INFO] &lt;user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-gui"/&gt;
[INFO] </pre>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     Note that for Tomcat 7 onwards, the roles required to use the manager
[INFO]     application were changed from the single <tt>manager</tt> role to the
[INFO]     following four roles. You will need to assign the role(s) required for
[INFO]     the functionality you wish to access.
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO]     <ul>
[INFO]       <li><tt>manager-gui</tt> - allows access to the HTML GUI and the status
[INFO]           pages</li>
[INFO]       <li><tt>manager-script</tt> - allows access to the text interface and the
[INFO]           status pages</li>
[INFO]       <li><tt>manager-jmx</tt> - allows access to the JMX proxy and the status
[INFO]           pages</li>
[INFO]       <li><tt>manager-status</tt> - allows access to the status pages only</li>
[INFO]     </ul>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     The HTML interface is protected against CSRF but the text and JMX interfaces
[INFO]     are not. To maintain the CSRF protection:
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO]    <ul>
[INFO]     <li>Users with the <tt>manager-gui</tt> role should not be granted either
[INFO]         the <tt>manager-script</tt> or <tt>manager-jmx</tt> roles.</li>
[INFO]     <li>If the text or jmx interfaces are accessed through a browser (e.g. for
[INFO]         testing since these interfaces are intended for tools not humans) then
[INFO]         the browser must be closed afterwards to terminate the session.</li>
[INFO]    </ul>
[INFO]    <p>
[INFO]     For more information - please see the
[INFO]     <a href="/docs/manager-howto.html">Manager App HOW-TO</a>.
[INFO]    </p>
[INFO]  </body>
[INFO] </html>

I have tomcat 7.0.32 and I restart it always I change some configuration about users or anything that need load again.

Answer

Dzmitry picture Dzmitry · Nov 13, 2012

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.

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