Create local maven repository

Question

I want to create local maven repository. I did the following steps:

1. Installed maven plugin in eclipse
2. Created one folder localrepository in apache s

Answer 1

Yes you can! For a simple repository that only publish/retrieve artifacts, you can use nginx.

1. Make sure nginx has http dav module enabled, it should, but nonetheless verify it.

2. Configure nginx http dav module:

   In Windows: d:\servers\nginx\nginx.conf

   location / {
       # maven repository
       dav_methods  PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
       create_full_put_path  on;
       dav_access  user:rw group:rw all:r;
   }
   

   In Linux (Ubuntu): /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

   location / {
           # First attempt to serve request as file, then
           # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
           # try_files $uri $uri/ =404;  # IMPORTANT comment this
           dav_methods  PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
           create_full_put_path  on;
           dav_access  user:rw group:rw all:r;
   }
   

   Don't forget to give permissions to the directory where the repo will be located:

   sudo chmod +777 /var/www/html/repository

3. In your project's pom.xml add the respective configuration:

   Retrieve artifacts:

   
       
           repository
           http:///repository
       
   
   

   Publish artifacts:

   
       
           
               org.apache.maven.wagon
               wagon-http
               3.2.0
           
       
   
   
       
           repository
           http:///repository
       
   
   

4. To publish artifacts use mvn deploy. To retrieve artifacts, maven will do it automatically.

And there you have it a simple maven repo.