Running a Maven repository manager using Apache WebDav

This posting continues the series on moving from an Ant to a Maven build.

Implementing a Maven repository manager using Apache's HTTPd with WebDav is straightforward. For this example, create the directory tree

.
├── apache2
│   ├── httpd.conf
│   └── logs
└── www
    └── repository

For the purposes of this example the directory tree is in /var/maven/

The httpd.conf file contains

LoadModule mpm_prefork_module libexec/apache2/mod_mpm_prefork.so
LoadModule unixd_module libexec/apache2/mod_unixd.so 
LoadModule authz_core_module libexec/apache2/mod_authz_core.so  
LoadModule access_compat_module libexec/apache2/mod_access_compat.so   
LoadModule mime_module libexec/apache2/mod_mime.so 

LoadModule dav_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module libexec/apache2/mod_dav_fs.so

ServerRoot ${BASEDIR}/apache2
LogLevel warn
PidFile logs/httpd.pid

Listen 8080
ServerName localhost:8080
ServerAdmin andrew@andrewgilmartin.com

AddType application/octet-stream .sha1
AddType application/octet-stream .md5
AddType text/xml .xml
AddType text/xml .pom
AddType application/octet-stream .jar
AddType application/octet-stream .war

DocumentRoot ${BASEDIR}/www

DavLockDB DavLock
<Directory />
    DAV On
</Directory>

Start the HTTP server (in the foreground) using

BASEDIR=/var/maven/ httpd -f /var/maven/apache2/httpd.conf -X

For Maven deploy to this repository manager you need to make two changes to your pom.xml. The first is to include the extension in the <build/> section

<extensions>
  <extension>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
    <artifactId>wagon-webdav-jackrabbit</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.4</version>
  </extension>
</extensions>

The second is to use the "dav:" prefix to your <distributionManagement/> element URLs

<distributionManagement>
  <snapshotRepository>
    <id>neighborhood-snapshots</id>
    <name>Neighborhood Snapshots</name>
    <url>dav:http://localhost:8080/repository/</url>
  </snapshotRepository>
  <repository>
    <id>neighborhood-releases</id>
    <name>Neighborhood Releases</name>
    <url>dav:http://localhost:8080/repository/</url>
  </repository>
</distributionManagement>

To deploy your project use

mvn clean package deploy

This posting is part of the series about moving to Maven from an ancient Ant build.

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