title: IntelliJ / Maven repo issue
body: <p>I am getting really up the walls with this problem, it's my second day trying to fix it. I tried all sources available on the web (at east what I could find)</p>
  
  <p>I am working with Spring MVC and trying to start new Maven project. What's happening is that the project built from templates and here is the error I am getting.</p>
  
  <p>Downloading: </p>
  
  <pre><code>    https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/maven-metadata.xml
  [WARNING] Could not transfer metadata org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin/maven-metadata.xml from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 2.224 s
  [INFO] Finished at: 2018-08-28T11:52:04+01:00
  [INFO] Final Memory: 7M/30M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:RELEASE or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:jar:RELEASE: Failed to resolve version for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:jar:RELEASE: Could not find metadata org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin/maven-metadata.xml in local (C:\Users\pgorski\.m2\repository) -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
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  <p>When I build new project without using archetypes, maven is simply not working - and giving following errors:</p>
  
  <p>1: When I check Maven repos, I can see an error with repo.aven.apache.org/maven2 with: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Transfer for nexus-maven-repository-index.properties failed.</p>
  
  <p>2: When I check Maven projct details, plugins and dependencies are with red under-line. </p>
  
  <p>Here is the output of mvn --debug:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format &lt;plugin-prefix&gt;:&lt;goal&gt; or &lt;plugin-group-id&gt;:&lt;plugin-artifact-id&gt;[:&lt;plugin-version&gt;]:&lt;goal&gt;. Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy. -&gt; [Help 1]
  org.apache.maven.lifecycle.NoGoalSpecifiedException: No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format &lt;plugin-prefix&gt;:&lt;goal&gt; or &lt;plugin-group-id&gt;:&lt;plugin-artifact-id&gt;[:&lt;plugin-version&gt;]:&lt;goal&gt;. Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy.
      at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute (LifecycleStarter.java:97)
      at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:305)
      at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute (DefaultMaven.java:192)
      at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute (DefaultMaven.java:105)
      at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute (MavenCli.java:954)
      at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain (MavenCli.java:288)
      at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main (MavenCli.java:192)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:498)
      at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced (Launcher.java:289)
      at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch (Launcher.java:229)
      at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode (Launcher.java:415)
      at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main (Launcher.java:356)
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoGoalSpecifiedException
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please help </p>