Installation of Sonatype Nexus

# mkdir -p /opt/nexus

# cd /opt/nexus/

# wget http://www.sonatype.org/downloads/nexus-latest-bundle.tar.gz

or Go to below link

https://www.sonatype.com/download-oss-sonatype

download the required nexus bundle and save it to your computer

Use Winscp to transfer file from your PC to Linux machine.

untar the file.

# tar zxvf nexus-2.14.9-01-bundle.tar.gz

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 ~]$ ls -ltr

total 79816

drwxr-xr-x 8 ec2-user ec2-user 113 Jun 27 2018 nexus-2.14.9-01

drwxr-xr-x 3 ec2-user ec2-user 37 Jun 27 2018 sonatype-work

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 81729327 Jul 19 2018 nexus-2.14.9-01-bundle.tar.gz

Create a softlink

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 ~]$ ln -s nexus-2.14.9-01 nexus

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 ~]$ cd nexus

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 nexus]$ ls -ltr

total 20

drwxr-xr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 6 Jun 27 2018 tmp

drwxr-xr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 6 Jun 27 2018 logs

-rw-r--r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 782 Jun 27 2018 NOTICE.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 ec2-user ec2-user 11006 Jun 27 2018 LICENSE.txt

drwxr-xr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 4096 Apr 23 12:14 lib

drwxr-xr-x 4 ec2-user ec2-user 111 Apr 23 12:14 nexus

drwxr-xr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 204 Apr 23 12:14 conf

drwxr-xr-x 3 ec2-user ec2-user 47 Apr 23 12:14 bin

# go to bin directory and start the nexus server.

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 nexus]$ cd bin/

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 bin]$ ls

jsw nexus nexus.bat

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-26-6 bin]$ ./nexus start

Starting Nexus OSS...

Started Nexus OSS.

Access the nexus URL

Check the logs

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-8-85 bin]$ cd ../logs/

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-8-85 logs]$

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-8-85 logs]$ tail wrapper.log

jvm 1 | 2019-05-03 04:28:40,162+0000 INFO [jetty-main-1] org.sonatype.nexus.proxy.registry.DefaultRepositoryTypeRegistry - Registered default repository types.

jvm 1 | 2019-05-03 04:28:40,371+0000 INFO [jetty-main-1] org.sonatype.nexus.events.EventSubscriberHost - Initialized

jvm 1 | 2019-05-03 04:28:40,378+0000 INFO [jetty-main-1] org.sonatype.nexus.NxApplication -

jvm 1 | -------------------------------------------------

jvm 1 |

jvm 1 | Initializing Nexus Repository Manager OSS 2.14.9-01

jvm 1 |

jvm 1 | -------------------------------------------------

jvm 1 | 2019-05-03 04:28:40,378+0000 INFO [jetty-main-1] org.sonatype.nexus.NxApplication - Activating locally installed plugins...

jvm 1 | 2019-05-03 04:28:43,104+0000 INFO [jetty-main-1] com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl - Initiating Jersey application, version 'Jersey: 1.17.1 02/28/2013 12:47 PM'

http://ec2-52-66-203-237.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/nexus/

Create two repository

spring-snapshots

spring-releases

clone the git URL and edit the pom.xml

git clone https://github.com/rkidambi11/Maven.git --- this should be in /var/lib/jenkins/ of Maven server.

[root@ip-172-31-28-96 springexample]# cat pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.mkyong.common</groupId>

<artifactId>SpringExample</artifactId>

<packaging>jar</packaging>

<version>2.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>

<name>SpringExample</name>

<!--url>http://maven.apache.org</url-->

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

<version>3.8.1</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<!-- Spring framework -->

<dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

<artifactId>spring</artifactId>

<version>2.5.6</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

<profiles>

<profile>

<id>spring-deploy</id>

<distributionManagement>

<repository>

<id>spring-releases</id>

<name>spring-releases</name>

<url>http://ec2-52-66-203-237.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories/spring-releases/</url>

</repository>

<snapshotRepository>

<id>spring-snapshots</id>

<name>spring-snapshots</name>

<url>http://ec2-52-66-203-237.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories/spring-snapshots/</url>

</snapshotRepository>

</distributionManagement>

</profile>

</profiles>

</project>Do mvn clean

mvn clean validate

mvn clean install

mvn clean deploy ### you have to create user, privilege, repository in nexus and Role.

after that go to .m2 directory and touch a settings.xml with below details

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"

  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0

                      https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

  ...

  <servers>

    <server>

      <id>spring-snapshots</id>

      <username>my_login</username>

      <password>my_password</password>

    </server>

    <server>

      <id>spring-releases</id>

      <username>my_login</username>

      <password>my_password</password>

    </server>

  </servers>

  ...

</settings>

Run the below commmands to send data from maven to nexus repository.

mvn -Pspring-deploy deploy