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Local Nexus guide

Local Nexus installation is an optional step. Having local Nexus helps to avoid using shared public Nexus and to pull random Bot Config Bundles (BCBs) into your local Control Tower.

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A good alternative would be to use your company's hosted Nexus server.

For a local development environment, it is possible to have all WorkFusion environment components within a workstation. IA Cloud Developer Edition allows to achieve that, except for a local Nexus repository. This guide explains how to install and configure for WorkFusion local Nexus.

Steps to install and configure

Download Nexus 2 Repository Manager

  1. Go to https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager2/download#Download-NexusRepositoryManager2OSS.
  2. Download Nexus 2 Repository Manager OSS (Open Source Edition) for Windows or macOS.

Install Nexus Repository Manager

  1. Extract all the files from the zip folder.

  2. Copy the nexus-(version) and sonatype-work directories to C:\Program Files.

  3. Open the terminal (Run as Administrator).

  4. Go to C:\Program Files\ nexus-(version)\bin and execute the nexus.bat console command.

    C:\>cd Program Files
C:\Program Files>cd nexus-2.14.14-01
C:\Program Files\nexus-2.14.14-01>cd bin
C:\Program Files\nexus-2.14.14-01\bin>
C:\Program Files\nexus-2.14.14-01\bin>nexus.bat console

  5. Wait until Nexus starts. In the terminal, wait for the Started Sonatype Nexus OSS message.

Open Nexus Repository Manager

  1. Open your browser and type in the URL: http://localhost:8081/nexus/.
  2. Sign in with the default credentials:
    • username: admin
    • password: admin123

Create and configure Repositories

  1. Go to Repositories, click the Add icon > Hosted Repository, and create your local repository.

  2. Enter a name for your repository and select defaults or custom settings. Typically, a repository for deployment to Control Tower is named wf-machine-config-bundle. You can also use the name.

  3. Select Release for Repository Policy and Allow Redeploy for Deployment Policy.

    Your repository appears in the list of available repositories.

  4. Repeat the same process to create the webharvest-plugins repository.

  5. Enter the URL for the wf-machine-config-bundle repository in your <bcb.repository.url></bcb.repository.url> tag of the project's root pom.xml.

    <bcb.repository.url>http://localhost:8081/nexus/service/local/repositories/wf-machine-config-bundle/content/</bcb.repository.url>

  6. Configure your local Maven's settings.xml file to provide credentials for deploying to local Nexus:

    <server>
      <id>bcb-repository</id>
      <username>admin</username>
      <password>********</password>
</server>