usage: deploy [option] Deploy the project war file into the remote Tomcat server. If your Tomcat server requires a user name and password to deploy web applications, edit (create if not present) $HOME/.m2/settings.xml file, and describe the username and password in this file. ($HOME is usually C:/Document and Settings/(user name) in Windows, /home/(user name) in Linux, /Users/(user name) in Mac OS X) Here is an example of settings.xml file: tomcat admin To change the deploy location, you have to edit pom.xml file in your project folder. In the pom.xml file, there is a plug-in section that denotes Tomcat manager's URL (http://localhost:8080/manager). org.codehaus.mojo tomcat-maven-plugin tomcat http://localhost:8080/manager /base-color true