Artifactory OSS throwing 405 Exception when running maven release:perform - maven

Question

artifactory-oss-6.7.2 is throwing a 405 status code exception when running maven release:perform
Created a settings.xml from artifactory "generate settings.xml" on repo. All repos are virtual repos. Added distributionManagement to my project pom file to use the ids for snapshots and releases from settings.xml.
settings.xml:
<repositories>
<repository>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
<id>central</id>
<name>libs-release</name>
<url>http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-release</url>
</repository>
<repository>
<snapshots />
<id>snapshots</id>
<name>libs-snapshot</name>
<url>http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
myproject/pom.xml:
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<name>Artifactory Release Repo</name>
<url>http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-release</url>
</repository>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>snapshots</id>
<name>Artifactory Snapshot Repo</name>
<url>http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot</url>
</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>
run mvn release:perform output:
[INFO] [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) on project model: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not transfer artifact com.test:model:jar:0.1.0 from/to central (http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-release): Failed to transfer file http://localhost:8081/artifactory/libs-release/com/srcrea/model/0.1.0/model-0.1.0.jar with status code 405 -> [Help 1]

Answer 1

So I followed something I found here -> http://forums.jfrog.org/Error-Code-405-with-mvn-deploy-td7174367.html
And updated DistributionManagement of the pom.xml
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<name>Artifactory Release Repo</name>
<url>http://localhost:8081/artifactory/88888</url>
</repository>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>snapshots</id>
<name>Artifactory Snapshot Repo</name>
<url>http://localhost:8081/artifactory/88888</url>
</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>
Re-Run and now I see it:
But what is not clear is in order to generate settings.xml you need to associate virtual repos to a local repo. Then generate settings off that and use the distributionManagement configuration to point back to the local repo. What is the point of the virtual repo?