I've just set up Archiva and I'm testing it. I'm trying to get mysql-connector-java and I'm expecting it to not find it in the internal repository, download it from the central repository and then cache it.
When I check <archiva>/data/repositories/internal, however, it's empty. Also Browse in the admin pages is empty and Search won't return anything.
I'm assuming this means that it's not storing the artifact and that it will get it from the central repo again next time. I'm also assuming I'm not getting something so some help would be great.
My bad - I was using the wrong URL for the repository. I had http://myrepo:8080/archiva and it needed http://myrepo:8080/archiva/repository/internal so it was going to central repo directly. Works fine now.