I am trying to deploy a WAR on the remote Tomcat (Remote Machine) using Jenkins deploy to container Plugin. I have done the following configuration in tomcat-users.xml
<user username="deployer" password="deployer" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,admin" />
I have setup the proper username password and port in Jenkins deployer container plugin. The setup is working fine for the local Tomcat. But for remote Tomcat I keep getting the following error:
Caused by: org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.internal.TomcatManagerException: The username you provided is not allowed to use the text-based Tomcat Manager (error 403) at org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.internal.TomcatManager.invoke(TomcatManager.java:555)
at org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.internal.TomcatManager.list(TomcatManager.java:686)
at org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.internal.TomcatManager.getStatus(TomcatManager.java:699)
at org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.internal.AbstractTomcatManagerDeployer.redeploy(AbstractTomcatManagerDeployer.java:174)
... 16 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://1.203.190.5:8080/manager/text/list
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at org.codehaus.cargo.container.tomcat.internal.TomcatManager.invoke(TomcatManager.java:544) ... 19 more
This seems to be a Jenkins bug but I got around the problem by setting up following configuration in Tomcat:
Edit the file /webapps/manager/META-INF/context.xml:
Previous:
<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />
</Context>
Change this file to comment the Value:
<Context antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true">
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" />
-->
</Context>
This resolved the issue.