Missing site information in the distribution management of the project spring-swagger-wordnik-client - maven

Question

I am trying to create a Maven repository for a project of mine.
The relevant lines in my project's pom.xml file are:
<project 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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>edu.mills.cs180a</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-swagger-wordnik-client</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>spring-swagger-wordnik-client</name>
<version>0.0.2A-SNAPSHOT</version>
...
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>CS180A site</id>
<url>file:///C:/Users/ellen/Dropbox/Apps/site44/www.spertus.com/cs180a</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.7.1</version>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</project>
I get this error when I try to deploy the site:
$ mvn site:deploy
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] -----------< edu.mills.cs180a:spring-swagger-wordnik-client >-----------
[INFO] Building spring-swagger-wordnik-client 0.0.2A-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-site-plugin:3.7.1:deploy (default-cli) # spring-swagger-wordnik-client ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.055 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-11-11T15:24:38-08:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.7.1:deploy (default-cli) on project spring-swagger-wordnik-client: Missing site information in the distribution management of the project spring-swagger-wordnik-client (edu.mills.cs180a:spring-swagger-wordnik-client:0.0.2A-SNAPSHOT) -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
I don't understand why I get this error:
Missing site information in the distribution management of the project spring-swagger-wordnik-client
What else should be in distribution management besides this?
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>CS180A site</id>
<url>file:///C:/Users/ellen/Dropbox/Apps/site44/www.spertus.com/cs180a</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>

Answer 1

Looking at your configuration, you need to add element inside distributionManagement as explained here: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/usage.html.