Using Nexus repository instead of public Maven in Idea Intellij - maven

Question

How can I force Idea Intellij to download from Nexus repository instead of Maven Public repo?
Where can I configure that in Idea properties?
It's not defined in pom.xml files and I'd prefer not to.

Answer 1

Not sure if it will work also on Idea Intellij ( I am using spring source studio - eclipse clon) , but should because maven configuration is in settings.xml in .M2 directory which is located in your home directory. Just use something like this ( my server is running on nexus-server:8081):
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<servers>
<server>
<id>releases</id>
<username>user-name</username>
<password>your-password</password>
</server>
<server>
<id>snapshots</id>
<username>user-name</username>
<password>your-password</password>
</server>
</servers>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<!--This sends everything else to /public -->
<id>nexus</id>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
<url>http://nexus-server:8081/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>nexus</id>
<!--Disable snapshots for the built in central repo to direct -->
<!--all requests to nexus via the mirror -->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases>
<enabled>true</enabled>
<updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<!--make the profile active all the time -->
<activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
</settings>