Why am I getting a “401 Unauthorized” error in Maven?

Question

Why am I getting a \"401 Unauthorized\" error in Maven?

Here\'s the error I\'m getting when calling mvn deploy (full logs at the bottom):

Answer 1

As stated in @John's answer, the fact that there is already a 0.1.2-SNAPSHOT, interfered with my new non-SNAPSHOT version 0.1.2. Since the 401 Unauthorized error is nebulous and unhelpful--and is normally associated to user/pass problems--it's no surprise that I was unable to figure this out on my own.

Changing the version to 0.1.3 brings me back to my original error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) on project xbnjava: Failed to install artifact com.github.aliteralmind:xbnjava:jar:0.1.3: R:\jeffy\programming\build\xbnjava-0.1.3\download\xbnjava-0.1.3-all.jar (The system cannot find the path specified) -> [Help 1].

A sonatype support person also recommended that I remove the block from my POM (it's only there because it's in the one from ez-vcard, which is what I started with) and replace my block with

  
    ossrh
    https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots
  
  
    ossrh
    https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/
  

and then make sure that lines up with what's in your settings.xml:

  
    
      ossrh
      your-jira-id
      your-jira-pwd
    
  

After doing this, running mvn deploy actually uploaded one of my jars for the very first time!!!

Output:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building XBN-Java 0.1.3
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- build-helper-maven-plugin:1.8:attach-artifact (attach-artifacts) @ xbnjava ---
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) @ xbnjava ---
[INFO] Installing R:\jeffy\programming\sandbox\z__for_git_commit_only\xbnjava\pom.xml to C:\Users\jeffy\.m2\repository\com\github\aliteralmind\xbnjava\0.1.3\xbnjava-0.1.3.pom
[INFO] Installing R:\jeffy\programming\build\xbnjava-0.1.3\download\xbnjava-0.1.3.jar to C:\Users\jeffy\.m2\repository\com\github\aliteralmind\xbnjava\0.1.3\xbnjava-0.1.3.jar
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) @ xbnjava ---
Uploading: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/0.1.3/xbnjava-0.1.3.pom
2/6 KB
4/6 KB
6/6 KB

Uploaded: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/0.1.3/xbnjava-0.1.3.pom (6 KB at 4.6 KB/sec)
Downloading: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/maven-metadata.xml
310/310 B

Downloaded: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/maven-metadata.xml (310 B at 1.6 KB/sec)
Uploading: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/maven-metadata.xml
310/310 B

Uploaded: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/maven-metadata.xml (310 B at 1.4 KB/sec)
Uploading: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/0.1.3/xbnjava-0.1.3.jar
2/630 KB
4/630 KB
6/630 KB
8/630 KB
10/630 KB
12/630 KB
14/630 KB
...
618/630 KB
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630/630 KB

(Success portion:)

Uploaded: https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/com/github/aliteralmind/xbnjava/0.1.3/xbnjava-0.1.3.jar (630 KB at 474.7 KB/sec)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.632 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2014-07-18T15:09:25-04:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/19M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the full updated POM:

  4.0.0
  com.github.aliteralmind
  xbnjava
  pom
  0.1.3
  XBN-Java
  https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava
  2014
  
     Jeff Epstein
  
  XBN-Java is a collection of generically-useful backend (server side, non-GUI) programming utilities, featuring RegexReplacer and FilteredLineIterator. XBN-Java is the foundation of Codelet (http://codelet.aliteralmind.com).

  
     
        Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0
        https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt
     
     
        Apache Software License (ASL) version 2.0
        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
     
  

  
     
        Jeff Epstein
        aliteralmind-github@yahoo.com
        
           Lead Developer
        
     
  

  
     GitHub Issue Tracker
     https://github.com/aliteralmind/xbnjava/issues
  

  
    
      ossrh
      https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots
    
    
      ossrh
      https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/
    
  

  
     scm:git:git@github.com:aliteralmind/xbnjava.git
     scm:git:git@github.com:aliteralmind/xbnjava.git
     scm:git:git@github.com:aliteralmind/xbnjava.git
  

  
     1.7
     R:\jeffy\programming\build\/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/download/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}
  
  
     
        
           org.codehaus.mojo
           build-helper-maven-plugin
           1.8
           
              
                 attach-artifacts
                 package
                 
                    attach-artifact
                 
                 
                    
                       
                          ${jarprefix}.jar
                          jar
                       
                    
                 
              
           
        
     
  

  
     
     
        release-sign-artifacts
        
           
              release
              true
           
        
     
  

That's one big Maven problem out of the way. Only 627 more to go.