tomcat7 maven plugin ignoring configuration

my Probelm is, when running mvn tomcat:[re]deploy i get HTTP returncode 403 from `http://localhost:8080/manager`, regardless of what url i specify for the tomcat plugin I found out in other Questions that ``` <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url> ``` should be what i aim for, but maven completley ignores this xml-tag, it always goes for /manager/deploy, even if i put complete rubbish like, ``` <url>http://localhost:8080/nana/</url> ``` What i tried: - Restarting the tomcat, - checked spelling of url and username/password, - tomcat is running, - i can login with the username "mavendeployer" over the gui if i add manager-gui as role - mvn install works fine - searched the whole Project for occurences of /manager - nothing found (if /nana is put as url) - removed the `<version>` tag from the tomcat7-plugin in .pom, trying to ensure that it was not the version i used that acts funny with my version of tomcat i am using maven 3.0.5, tomcat7, whatever version Maven provides for the plugin my tomcat-user: ``` <user username="mavendeployer" password="maven" roles = "manager-script,admin-script" /> ``` my maven server-settings: ``` <server> <id>localtomcat</id> <username>mavendeployer</username> <password>maven</password> </server> ``` my pom: (deleted a lot of dependencies to keep it short, the build works fine, just mvn tomcat:[re]deploy fails: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>net.test</groupId> <artifactId>testApp</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <!-- <server SW version>-<REST interface version> --> <version>1.6.4-1.0.3</version> <name>Test</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4.3</version> </dependency> ...javax.servlet ...javax.servlet.jsp ... </dependencies> <build> <finalName>test</finalName> <plugins> <!-- Maven Tomcat Plugin --> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <url>http://localhost:8080/nana/</url> <server>localtomcat</server> <path>/mim</path> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0.2</version> <configuration> <source>1.7</source> <target>1.7</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> ``` I don't seem to be able to find a Question where changing url to /manager/text or manager/html did not solve the 403 issue, what am i missing?