Error when I try deploy application to tomcat7 server

Question

I am trying deploy a web application to tomcat7 via eclipse luna, but I am getting this error:

Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja

[INFO] I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
[INFO] Retrying request
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja

[INFO] I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
[INFO] Retrying request
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja

[INFO] I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
[INFO] Retrying request
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.936 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2014-08-15T22:10:04-03:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/112M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.2:deploy (default-cli) on project loja: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection reset -> [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

I also try deploy to tomcat8, but I get this same error.

In my pom.xml, I have this configuration related to this operation:

  <build>
    <finalName>loja</finalName>
    <plugins>
        <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>/loja</path>
                <username>user001</username>
                <password>123</password>
           </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Anyone knows what's happening here?

UPDATE

I try deploy the application with the command mvn:tomcat7 deploy -X and the output was that:

[INFO] Retrying request
[DEBUG] Reopening the direct connection.
[DEBUG] Connecting to localhost:8080
[DEBUG] Attempt 4 to execute request
[DEBUG] Sending request: PUT /manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja HTTP/1.1
[DEBUG]  >> "PUT /manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG]  >> "User-Agent: Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin/2.2[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG]  >> "Content-Length: 18783041[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG]  >> "Host: localhost:8080[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG]  >> "Connection: Keep-Alive[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG]  >> "Authorization: Basic dXNlcjAwMToxMjM=[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG]  >> "[\r][\n]"
[DEBUG] >> PUT /manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja HTTP/1.1
[DEBUG] >> User-Agent: Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin/2.2
[DEBUG] >> Content-Length: 18783041
[DEBUG] >> Host: localhost:8080
[DEBUG] >> Connection: Keep-Alive
[DEBUG] >> Authorization: Basic dXNlcjAwMToxMjM=
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Floja
...
[DEBUG] Connection 0.0.0.0:53183<->127.0.0.1:8080 closed
[DEBUG] Closing the connection.
[DEBUG] Connection 0.0.0.0:53183<->127.0.0.1:8080 closed
[DEBUG] Connection 0.0.0.0:53183<->127.0.0.1:8080 shut down
[DEBUG] Connection 0.0.0.0:53183<->127.0.0.1:8080 closed
[DEBUG] Connection released: [id: 0][route: {}->http://localhost:8080][total kept alive: 0; route allocated: 0 of 2; total allocated: 0 of 5]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5.271 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2014-08-16T08:11:09-03:00
[DEBUG] Connection manager is shutting down
[INFO] Final Memory: 14M/109M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[DEBUG] Connection manager shut down

Answer 1

Ok, I had the same issue with tomcat7.

[INFO] I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
[INFO] Retrying request
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2iplover

[INFO] I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Connection reset
[INFO] Retrying request
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2iplover

[INFO] I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request:         Connection reset
[INFO] Retrying request
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2iplover

I could not get it to work with

mvn tomcat7:redeploy 

as mentioned here.

My WAR wasn't very large, just 4MB.

Here was the root problem and solution

It is important that your tomcat-users.xml has the correct roles setup. I ONLY had the role manager setup. Adding manager-script seems important and completely solved my problem.

<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="manager,manager-gui,manager-script"/>