Reputation: 1790

Where is Maven's settings.xml located on Mac OS?

Upvotes: 149

Answers (13)

Ramya Musunuru

Reputation: 471

To find out settings.xml

Use mvn -version then find out the Maven home path in the output of mvn -version for ex:

@AMAWQ5XV34HCJ conf % mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.9.0 (9b58d2bad23a66be161c4664ef21ce219c2c8584)
Maven home: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.9.0/libexec
Java version: 17.0.4, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/backup/jdk-17.0.4.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_NO, platform encoding: ISO8859-1
OS name: "mac os x", version: "12.6.3", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac

settings.xml will be found at

<Mavenhome path>/conf

forex: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.9.0/libexec/conf

Alternately you can also move to .m2 folder, which is ideally located in the root, of not create one and copy to that -m2

mkdir ~/.m2
cp /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.9.0/libexec/conf/settings.xml ~/.m2

Upvotes: 1

Aman Singh Bhandari

Reputation: 21

If you have installed maven with brew then it must be at the path

/usr/local/Cellar/maven/(mvn_version)/libexec/conf/settings.xml

Upvotes: 0

Mariusz W.

Reputation: 116

I think it's the best to use mvn -X so it should print you locations of settings being used effectively

...
[DEBUG] Reading global settings from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.8.6/libexec/conf/settings.xml
[DEBUG] Reading user settings from /Users/XXX/.m2/settings.xml
...

Upvotes: 1

kunrenzhilu

Reputation: 31

For macOS Monterey 12.0.1 and home-brew 3.4.7, it locates at /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/{version}/libexec/

I got this location from mvn -version, which gives me

Apache Maven 3.8.5 (3599d3414f046de2324203b78ddcf9b5e4388aa0)
Maven home: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.8.5/libexec
Java version: 18, vendor: Homebrew, runtime: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk/18/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_SG, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "12.0.1", arch: "aarch64", family: "mac"

Upvotes: 2

gregor vojvoda

Reputation: 139

After I have downloaded the binary from apache site I, have placed the extracted folder in /Library
So now the location of the settings.xml file is in:

/Library/apache_maven_3.6.3/conf

Upvotes: 1

Sam Kaz

Reputation: 450

I installed mavaen using sdkman because of which the other proposed solution didn't work, as they are applicable if the installation is done via Homebrew or as a standalone binary.

for my solution I did "which mvn" in the terminal which returned: "/Users/samkaz/.sdkman/candidates/maven/current/bin/mvn"

Then after opening the path in a finder and looking around the above directory I found settings.xml in the below folder. "/Users/samkaz/.sdkman/candidates/maven/3.6.3/conf"

Upvotes: 0

water_ak47

Reputation: 1306

if you install the maven with the brew

you can type the command("mvn -v") in Terminal

see Maven home detail

mvn -v
Apache Maven 3.5.0 (ff8f5e7444045639af65f6095c62210b5713f426; 2017-04-04T03:39:06+08:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.5.0/libexec
Java version: 1.8.0_121, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_121.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: zh_CN, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.11.5", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

Upvotes: 46

ben26941

Reputation: 1730

I brew installed it, and found it under /usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/conf

Upvotes: 2

Chen

Reputation: 3060

found it under /Users/username/apache-maven-3.3.9/conf

Upvotes: 2

chaitanya

Reputation: 711

->It is located in $MAVEN_HOME/conf/settings.xml... where $MAVEN_HOME is your environmental variable of Maven that you have downloaded. Else you can do like this also.. ->Path to Maven can also be found from /etc/bashrc file in mac. Get Path to Maven from that file and in that Maven directory you can find conf/ directory inside that directory you can find settings.xml of maven

Upvotes: 4