Question

I’m having a problem which I can’t solve.

I have bought a cheap vps, with ubuntu 12.10 then installed the tomcat7, maven, and nexus. All of them are the latest. This is a fresh install from everything. I started and deployed the nexus, no errors in catalina, no errors in nexus, and when I tried to login with admin/admin123, I have failed.

I’ll show you any of my log file what you need, please help me with this.

EDIT: nexus is 2.2-01

EDIT2: this is a cheap server with 512 ram, running without X

My security-configuration.xml is this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<security-configuration>
    <version>2.0.3</version>
    <enabled>true</enabled><!-- was true -->
    <anonymousAccessEnabled>true</anonymousAccessEnabled>
    <anonymousUsername>anonymous</anonymousUsername>
    <anonymousPassword>{1FH7iFzhCukHI3ISkjq+AuQZb+bOMrB70bGqF2y6fNE=}</anonymousPassword>
    <realms>
      <realm>XmlAuthenticatingRealm</realm>
      <realm>XmlAuthorizingRealm</realm>
    </realms>
    <securityManager>default</securityManager>
</security-configuration>

Answer 1

Do the following:

1. stop Nexus
2. change the enabled in the xml to false
3. restart Nexus
4. get in without anything as admin that way
5. reset the admin password
6. enable the security again in the user interface

Oh and btw. I would suggest to run Nexus from the bundle with Jetty on a VPS and not with the war file in Tomcat so you get more performance out of it.

Update: Security can no longer be disabled in Nexus 2.7 and up. You have to insert an admin user into the xml as documented in this support page.