Not able to download artifacts from central maven repository.
<mirrors>
<!-- mirror
| Specifies a repository mirror site to use instead of a given repository. The repository that
| this mirror serves has an ID that matches the mirrorOf element of this mirror. IDs are used
| for inheritance and direct lookup purposes, and must be unique across the set of mirrors.
|
<mirror>
<id>mirrorId</id>
<mirrorOf>repositoryId</mirrorOf>
<name>Human Readable Name for this Mirror.</name>
<url>http://my.repository.com/repo/path</url>
</mirror>
-->
<mirror>
<id>internal</id>
<name>Proxy Cache - Internal Repository</name>
<url>http://localhost:8080/archiva/repository/internal</url>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
Please add information, like error log, and what you really need !
As a beggining, does you archiva repository needs credentials. If true, consider adding them like this :
<!-- servers
| This is a list of authentication profiles, keyed by the server-id used within the system.
| Authentication profiles can be used whenever maven must make a connection to a remote server.
|-->
<servers>
<server>
<id>internal</id>
<username>username</username>
<password>password</password>
</server>
</servers>