Nexus Repo gives 503 with Maven but not with browser

Question

I just created a Nexus repo on a remote server. If I go to a browser on my local computer I see the pom file just fine. However, when I try mvn clean compile I see...

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Answer 1

I struggled with this problem for ages; tried both answers to this question and also tried everything else I could find on the interwebs but to no avail.

Then I changed the URLs in the distributionManagement section of the pom.xml. I used my PCs name instead of "localhost".

As in: mypcname:8081/blahblah instead of localhost:8081/blahblah

And it started to work miraculously.