java - 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