Maven, Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2

Question

I have just downloaded last version of Maven.

And when i am trying to run

mvn archetype:generate

i get error message

Answer 1

It seems as though directory browsing on http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 has been switched off. I had to resort to getting the archetype catalog myself. I did this:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=archetype-catalog.xml

Alternatively I guess you could just download the archetype-catalog.xml file from that link and place it in your .m2 directory as mentioned in this comment:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-202?focusedCommentId=182771&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-182771