I am running Nexus 3.0.1-01, and am using it to host both Maven repositories and NPM registries. For NPM, I have a local mirror of npmjs.org, a local NPM registry and a group that combines the two...
I have been using this with npm internally, where I can use the npm-public group as my registry and this has been working fine. So, I can use Nexus to mirror npmjs.
The next step is to take locally written npm modules and publish them to npm-releases (on my Nexus instance) so that these modules can be shared amongst the delivery teams here. I've been able to build out a package, and npm pack seems to behave.
I have run npm adduser to provide my Nexus credentials to my npm environment. I am using the same username/password I use when I log into the Nexus web app, and my user is assigned the admin role (so I should have all permissions). I can see the credentials in my .npmrc file
My registry value is still the npm-public group which combined the mirror and my local registry. I have ensured that the package.json of the module I am attempting to deploy has a "publishConfig" section that points to the url of the local registry (not the public group)
However, despite all of that, calling "npm publish" results in a 401 error...
Looking at the npm-debug.log, I can see it's attempting to call the HTTP PUT call to push the assembled tgz file to the registry, and this is returning a 401 error
I have enabled debug logging on the shiro package in the server, but I only ever see a single message thinking it needs authentication
2016-09-13 08:56:28,590+1000 DEBUG [qtp1257823896-4030] *UNKNOWN org.apache.shiro.web.filter.authc.BasicHttpAuthenticationFilter - Authentication required: sending 401 Authentication challenge response.
According to the documentation, I've done all I'm supposed to do (npm add user) but I am unable to successfully deploy an npm module to my local repository.
Are there additional options I need to use when calling npm publish? Are there additional settings I need to make to the hosted npm repository in my server that will allow me to publish to it? I pretty much created it using the default values. Have I missed a step that is preventing me from deploying to my hosted npm registry?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am stuck at the moment.
Answer
As it turns out, I did not have the Npm Bearer Token Realm in my list of active realms. Once I moved it to Active, the publish completed successfully!
