Maven Proxy settings.xml ignored

Question

Maybe someone can help me with the following Problem:

I have declared a proxy in M as described at maven - Configuring a proxy.

For some reason the proxy is ignored, although the proxy itself works correctly with maven when setting the proxy via command line.

When calling the maven goal like this, it works:

mvn -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=myproxy.com -DproxyPort=3128 eclipse:eclipse

Any suggestions for this problem?

Answer 1

When settings.xml is ignored, I tend to check first if the environment variable M2_HOME:

• exists in the current shell session
• refers to the parent directory of said settings.xml

mglauche comments:

M2_HOME should specify the system settings.xml to use.
You still have your user settings in ${home}/.m2/settings.xml, which should overwrite anything in the system settings.

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For Maven Eclipse, as mglauche mentions in the comments, specify the full path in the maven preferences: