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 server which is accessible using http://< my-domain>/localrepository

3. In my project pom.xml I have provided

   <repositories>
       <repository>
           <id>repository</id>
           <url>http://<my-domain>/localMavenRepository</url>
       </repository>
   </repositories>
   

But it is not resolving the jars which are on http://< my-domain>/localMavenRepository

Is there any need to provide repository?

Answer 1

Set up a simple repository using a web server with its default configuration. The key is the directory structure. The documentation does not mention it explicitly, but it is the same structure as a local repository.

To set up an internal repository just requires that you have a place to put it, and then start copying required artifacts there using the same layout as in a remote repository such as repo.maven.apache.org. Source

Add a file to your repository like this:

mvn install:install-file \
  -Dfile=YOUR_JAR.jar -DgroupId=YOUR_GROUP_ID 
  -DartifactId=YOUR_ARTIFACT_ID -Dversion=YOUR_VERSION \
  -Dpackaging=jar \
  -DlocalRepositoryPath=/var/www/html/mavenRepository

If your domain is example.com and the root directory of the web server is located at /var/www/html/, then maven can find "YOUR_JAR.jar" if configured with <url>http://example.com/mavenRepository</url>.