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• Here's the file: apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip
• Put this somewhere on your machine that won't be disturbed, for instance $HOME/arc. You may need to make the arc/ directory if you are going to use that.
• Construct the file URL for this file. For instance, if you put it in /Users/adam/arc/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip, the file url would be file:///Users/adam/arc/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip.
• For Windows, if you put the file in c:\downloads\apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip, the file url would be file:///c:/downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.18.zip.
• Save the following text as the $HOME/.m2/settings.xml file, replacing the REPLACE-WITH-FILE-URL in the text below with the URL you just constructed: ::

  Code Block
  xml xml
  <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"

  
  

  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0

  
  

  http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

  <profiles>
  <profile>
  <id>local</id> <activation>
  <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
  </activation>
  <properties>
  

  <profiles> <profile> <id>local</id> <activation> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> </activation> <properties> <tomcat.container.url>REPLACE-WITH-FILE-URL</tomcat.container.url>

  
  

  </properties>

  
  

  </profile>

  </profiles>

  </settings>

Proxy Settings

Maven often acts funny if the network is not set up correctly, especially the first time you build. If you access the internet via a proxy server, you must tell maven about the settings. See this page for info:

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