# Please help! Can't use Nexus anymore! Can nexus become unusable forever? It's amazing!

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/please-help-cant-use-nexus-anymore-can-nexus-become-unusable-forever-its-amazing/11759>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/please-help-cant-use-nexus-anymore-can-nexus-become-unusable-forever-its-amazing/11759 "2023-12-13T18:29:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![gbringashotmail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@gbringashotmail](https://community.sonatype.com/u/gbringashotmail)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/please-help-cant-use-nexus-anymore-can-nexus-become-unusable-forever-its-amazing/11759/1 "2023-12-13T18:29:16Z")

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Hi, I have Nexus RepositoryOSS 3.62.0-0. I have been configuring **HTTPS** (both inbound and outbound, even with proxies, both direct and reverse).

Now I’ve undone all that and am back to using my normal connection: **[https://localhost:8081](https://localhost:8081)** (with the default repositories: **maven-central** , **maven-public** , **maven-releases** and **meven.snapshots** ).  
But now I run into the problem that **the maven-central repository is always empty** , that is, it is never filled with any **Maven Central** component. For that reason, **if I use maven-public as a mirror** , then all my Maven projects that need any dependency on Maven Central, will fail.

I understand that by playing with HTTPS **I have modified some Nexus configuration** and now everything fails when I want to use HTTP again.

Is there any easy way to configure it or do I have to uninstall Nexus and install it from scratch? I would hate to have to do that.

I would appreciate any clues, however small.  
Thanks!

PS: I write some errors, but maybe they are a product or consequence of some misconfiguration made by me:

`[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:jar:2.5 is missing, no dependency information available`

`[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:jar:2.5 was not found in http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-public/ during a previous attempt. This failure was cached in the local repository and resolution is not reattempted until the update interval of nexus-public has elapsed or updates are forced ->`

PS: If I remove the **mirror** to the Nexus **maven-public** repository everything works fine, but the Nexus **maven-central** repository is not filled with components, that is, Nexus is not used at all.

NOTE: I have installed the latest version ( **v3.63** ) from scratch and the problem is solved by running **mvn clean package -U** in a Maven project, but **v3.62** does not fix it in any way.  
And if I install it ( **v3.63** ) on another computer, everything works fine.

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**Author:** ![mpiggott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/please-help-cant-use-nexus-anymore-can-nexus-become-unusable-forever-its-amazing/11759/2 "2023-12-14T16:20:05Z")

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I can only suggest replacing whatever files you’ve edited with the original versions.