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This repository keeps my Maven SNAPSHOT artifacts so that people can use:

      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>duns-maven-snapshots</id>
          <name>Duns' Maven Snapshots</name>
          <releases>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
          <url>http://github.com/duns/maven-snapshots/raw/gh-pages</url>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>

in their settings.xml or pom.xml

Below the steps to setup a Nexus server to proxy the nar plugin repository hosted over on github.

1) In Nexus, I created a new Proxy Repository, and chose an arbitrary ID and name for it. ("github-duns")
2) I made sure to select "Snapshot" as the repository policy.
3) The url I used as the remote storage location is:
http://github.com/duns/maven-snapshots/raw/gh-pages
4) I made sure to have the "download remote indexes" option set to False.
5) I set all the expiration settings to 2 minutes while I was playing around with things so any changes I made took effect quickly.
6) The other settings for the new repository I left as the defaults.
7) I have a repository group called "public" which is what all of the pom.xml files for my actual builds refer to, so I adjusted that group and added the newly created "github-duns" repository to the list.

Note the /raw/ instead /tree/ in the url. I had thought I used a similar url before, but it wasn't working initially. I then ended up playing around with it, doing things like adding "/org" on to the end, until I noticed that I could actually browse the remote files through Nexus. Once that started working, I stripped off the extra subdirectory paths, and I was able to browse things from the top directory.

I am now able to successfully use the nar plugin from machines within my firewall.

(thanks to Eric Hawicz for this procedure)

Mark Donszelmann