Issue declaring the Nexus3 repositories as remote repositories in Artifactory

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I am setting up Nexus3 repository as a remote repository in Artifactory. But when I update the Nexus3 repo URL(https://domainname/repository/reponame/) & necessary credentials for authentication in the admin section, during testing i am getting,

Connection failed: Error 404.

I have tried providing the rest URL(http://domainname/service/rest/repository/browse/reponame). In this case, connection to the nexus server establishes successfully & able to see the directory structure for the remote repo in the Artifacts section , but could not find the artifacts inside & seeing below output/error,

{ "errors" : [ { "status" : 404, "message" : "Couldn't find item: XXXX:XXXXXXX" } ]

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What type of repository is this (Maven, npm etc.)? – Dror Bereznitsky
@DrorBereznitsky its Maven repository – madhu sudan
also , I have tested the same with nexusV2, I was able to successfully authenticate to the nexusV2 server & able to pull artifacts from Artifactory, i have issue only when i test with NexusV3 – madhu sudan
Are you using a context path? If you upgraded from NXRM2 to 3 and forgot to add the context path, that could be the difference. – joedragons
Issue is resolved, even though testing the settings gave "Connection failed: Error 404" . I went ahead and saved the settings in Artifactory UI & ran a maven build using Artifactory URL, Artifactory was able to fetch artifacts from nexus remote repository – madhu sudan

2 Answers

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The test is failing when creating an Artifactory remote repository which point to a hosted Nexus repository, since Artifactory is using a HEAD request for checking the remote repository and for some reason Nexus will return a 404 (while returning a 200 when the same request is sent using the GET method). This behavior does not happen with Nexus group repositories.

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You have to ignore the error while saving. This is because of a header mismatch.

Repo path should be like:

https://<host>:<port>/repository/reponame

Once you save the repository and try to download, it will work.