Nexus Open Source is available as a WAR
which can be run in an existing application server or servlet container.
The Nexus Open Source WAR has been successfully tested
in Tomcat, Jetty, and Resin. If you need to run Nexus under Glassfish,
please see Section 3.8.1, “Running the Nexus WAR in Glassfish”. To download the Nexus
Open Source WAR, go to http://nexus.sonatype.org/using/download.html.
Click on the Download Site link and then download the Nexus
WAR nexus-webapp-1.6.0.war.
Once you have downloaded the Nexus Open Source WAR, you
can install it in a servlet container or application server.
The process for installing a WAR in an servlet
container or application server is going to vary for each specific
application. Often, this installation process is as simple as dropping a
WAR file in a special directory and restarting the
container. For example, to install the Nexus WAR in
Tomcat, drop the nexus-webapp-1.6.0.war file
in ${TOMCAT_HOME}/webapps and restart your Tomcat
instance. Assuming that Tomcat is configured on port 8080 once Tomcat is
started, Nexus will be available on http://localhost:8080/nexus-webapp-1.6.0.
If you would like a less verbose URL, copy
nexus-webapp-1.6.0.war to a file named
nexus.war before copying the distribution to
\${TOMCAT_HOME}/webapps.
Note
When installing Nexus as a WAR in an
application server or servlet container, it automatically creates a
sonatype-work directory in
~/sonatype-work. This directory contains all of the
necessary configuration and repository storage for Nexus.
There is a known logging configuration conflict between
the Nexus Open Source WAR and Glassfish. To address
this conflict, you will need to modify the
log4j.properties file and change a few of the
directives that print messages to the console. The
log4j.properties file is located in
~/sonatype-work/conf/log4j.properties. This file is
created the first time you attempt to deploy Nexus to Glassfish. To
create this file, deploy Nexus to Glassfish. While this initial
deployment will fail due to a logging conflict, the act of deploying
Nexus to Glassfish will create the working directory in
~/sonatype-work and the
log4j.properties file.
Edit this log4j.properties file as
follows:
-
On the first line, change "
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, console, logfile" to "log4j.rootLogger=INFO, logfile" -
Remove the last three lines starting with "
log4j.appender.console"
These changes will instruct Log4J not to print messages to the console. Once you make these edits, restart Glassfish.
