Nexus

This page explains how to setup and configure NEXUS Maven repositories.

Requirements

a) You need to setup Maven

b) You need to create a root folder to host all the artifacts

mkdir -p /home/nexus
chmod -R 777 /home/nexus

Installation

Download Nexus OSS as Nexus Open-Source Server - take the ZIP format

• http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/go/

cd /opt
wget http://www.sonatype.org/downloads/nexus-latest-bundle.tar.gz
tar xzvf nexus-latest-bundle.tar.gz
rm nexus-latest-bundle.tar.gz
ln -s /opt/nexus-2.11.4-01/ /opt/nexus

Configuration

Set nexus parameters

Adjust the port number and root context path, if required

vim /opt/nexus/conf/nexus.properties

Set:

application-port=9081
nexus-webapp-context-path=/nexus

## Nexus section
# nexus-work == folders where the artifacts are going to be saved. You must choose a folder with a lot of disk!
nexus-work=${bundleBasedir}/../sonatype-work/nexus
runtime=${bundleBasedir}/nexus/WEB-INF

Run Nexus from anywhere

Set the NEXUS_HOME into the start script. Without it you cannot run Nexus as a service!

ln -s /opt/nexus/bin/nexus /usr/bin/nexus
ln -s /opt/nexus/bin/nexus /etc/init.d/nexus

vim /opt/nexus/bin/nexus

NEXUS_HOME="/opt/nexus"