Hello I am trying to deploy a war into my tomcat
when I run mvn:tomcat deploy I am getting the following error: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:deploy (default-cli) on project jsfOS: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=%2FjsfOS&war= -> [Help 1] my pom.xml is the following : <plugin> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1.1</version> <configuration> <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/web.xml</packagingExcludes> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.1</version> <configuration> <warFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.war</warFile> <url>http://localhost:8080/manager</url> <server>tomcat</server> <path>jsfOS</path> </configuration> </plugin> my settings.xml : ... <servers> <server> <id>tomcat</id> <username>ericomtx</username> <password>kernel26</password> </server> </servers> ... my maven : mvn -version Apache Maven 3.2.3 (33f8c3e1027c3ddde99d3cdebad2656a31e8fdf4; 2014-08-11T17:58:10-03:00) Maven home: /Users/ericomtx/development/apache/apache-maven-3.2.3 Java version: 1.6.0_65, vendor: Apple Inc. Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.6.8", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac" I am using a macos 10.6.8 my tomcat dir : /Users/ericomtx/development/apache mac:apache ericomtx$ ls -la total 32 drwxr-x---@ 6 ericomtx staff 204 Aug 31 12:38 . drwxrwxrwx 27 ericomtx staff 918 Aug 31 11:32 .. -rw-r-----@ 1 ericomtx staff 15364 Aug 31 16:39 .DS_Store drwxr-xr-x@ 14 ericomtx staff 476 Aug 31 11:11 apache-ant-1.9.4 drwxr-xr-x@ 10 ericomtx staff 340 Aug 31 13:12 apache-maven-3.2.3 drwxrwxrwx@ 13 ericomtx staff 442 Aug 31 17:21 apache-tomcat-6.0.41 mac:apache-tomcat-6.0.41 ericomtx$ ls -la webapps/ total 16 drwxrwxrwx@ 8 ericomtx staff 272 Aug 31 16:22 . drwxrwxrwx@ 13 ericomtx staff 442 Aug 31 17:21 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 ericomtx staff 6148 Aug 31 16:39 .DS_Store drwxr-xr-x@ 13 ericomtx staff 442 Aug 31 16:29 ROOT drwxr-xr-x@ 45 ericomtx staff 1530 May 19 07:50 docs drwxr-xr-x@ 6 ericomtx staff 204 May 19 07:50 examples drwxrwxrwx@ 6 ericomtx staff 204 May 19 07:50 host-manager drwxrwxrwx@ 8 ericomtx staff 272 Aug 31 16:27 manager please can someone help me out on this ?