title: Sonatype nexus 3 Remote connection pending
body: <p>I recently upgraded to <code>nexus-3.0.0-M5</code> for our repository server and I noticed two problems with it.</p>
  
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  <li>Any repository (hosted) that I create, gets stuck in <code>Remote Connection Pending</code> state and it doesn't change no matter what I do.</li>
  <li>I already have a huge storage/index (approximately 65GB that includes local and remote jars) that I want to use. In Nexus2.x versions, there was a property file called <code>conf/nexus.properties</code> where I could specify this and so all upgrades were quite simple and straightforward. But in Nexus3, I can't seem to configure these properties.</li>
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  <p>Any help in this regard would be useful, been banging my head on the wall since 2 days.</p>
  
  <p><strong>More Info</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am not sitting behind a proxy, all connections to my nexus repository are quite direct with authentication. I used <a href="https://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/3.0/reference/admin.html#_repository_management_example" rel="nofollow">this link</a> to create a hosted repository (in case I was missing something) but it gets added fine, it just stays stuck in <code>remote connection pending</code> state.</p>
  
  <p>I can separate out my local jars from the whole storage area that my previous nexus (nexus2.11) created but even those are about 1.4GB in size. If I could get nexus3 to some-how host these jars automatically, then I can spend the rest of the time in configuring the remote ones (bummer! but as long as my local jars are there, I'll live) </p>