Maven, Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2

Question

I have just downloaded last version of Maven.

And when i am trying to run

mvn archetype:generate

i get error message

[WARNING] Error reading archetype catalog http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 org.apache.maven.wagon.authorization.AuthorizationException: Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 , ReasonPhrase:Denied Access. at org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon.fillInputData(AbstractHttpClientWagon.java:928) at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.getInputStream(StreamWagon.java:116) at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.getIfNewer(StreamWagon.java:88) at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.get(StreamWagon.java:61) at org.apache.maven.archetype.source.RemoteCatalogArchetypeDataSource.downloadCatalog(RemoteCatalogArchetypeDataSource.java:119) at org.apache.maven.archetype.source.RemoteCatalogArchetypeDataSource.getArchetypeCatalog(RemoteCatalogArchetypeDataSource.java:87) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetypeManager.getRemoteCatalog(DefaultArchetypeManager.java:216) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetypeManager.getRemoteCatalog(DefaultArchetypeManager.java:205) at org.apache.maven.archetype.ui.generation.DefaultArchetypeSelector.getArchetypesByCatalog(DefaultArchetypeSelector.java:200) at org.apache.maven.archetype.ui.generation.DefaultArchetypeSelector.selectArchetype(DefaultArchetypeSelector.java:71) at org.apache.maven.archetype.mojos.CreateProjectFromArchetypeMojo.execute(CreateProjectFromArchetypeMojo.java:197) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) [WARNING] No archetype found in remote catalog. Defaulting to internal catalog [INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)

I have not Proxy and internet works fine. Firewall is turned off. How to solve this problem ?

Thx for your help.

If we look to the class org.apache.maven.wagon.shared.http4.AbstractHttpClientWagon method fillInputData( InputData inputData ) we can see this:

public void fillInputData( InputData inputData )
       throws TransferFailedException, ResourceDoesNotExistException,AuthorizationException
    {
     ....
 HttpResponse response;
     ....
 statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
     ....
 switch ( statusCode )
        {
            case HttpStatus.SC_OK:
                break;

            case HttpStatus.SC_NOT_MODIFIED:
                // return, leaving last modified set to original value so getIfNewer should return unmodified
                return;

            case SC_NULL:
            {
                TransferFailedException e =
                    new TransferFailedException( "Failed to transfer file: " + url + reasonPhrase );
                fireTransferError( resource, e, TransferEvent.REQUEST_GET );
                throw e;
            }

            case HttpStatus.SC_FORBIDDEN:    // <---------THIS
                fireSessionConnectionRefused();
                throw new AuthorizationException( "Access denied to: " + url + reasonPhrase);
       ....
         }
...
}

So problem caused because we have HTTP 403 Forbidden error in response. But i dont know what to do...

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So now we know that we are getting FORBIDDEN error because we have not User-Agent in HTTP request. Thanx to Patouche

Answer 1

It seems as though directory browsing on http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 has been switched off. I had to resort to getting the archetype catalog myself. I did this:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=archetype-catalog.xml

Alternatively I guess you could just download the archetype-catalog.xml file from that link and place it in your .m2 directory as mentioned in this comment:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-202?focusedCommentId=182771&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-182771

Answer 2

It seems like Apache central repository has fixed the issue. So without making any change, the problem is fixed now. Please try once again and let us know in case of any issue.

Answer 3

Execute this Command. It will not only create your maven project but also resolve the issue of downloading archetype jar. It is mainly due to unavailability to the archetype URL.

Fill Project Group Id with your project names.

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId={Project Group Id} -DartifactId={Project Id} -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false -DarchetypeCatalog=http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=archetype-catalog.xml

Answer 4

it seem to work with maven 2 (reproduced the problem on 3 machines linux and windows with maven 3.05 and maven 3.1)

the problem occurs only for the repo1... urls. If you delete your local repository, all plugin downloads will work fine until the download of archetype catalog - "access denied"