Yes you can! For a simple repository that only publish/retrieve artifacts, you can use nginx.
Make sure nginx has http dav module enabled, it should, but nonetheless verify it.
Configure nginx http dav module:
In Windows: d:\servers\nginx\nginx.conf
location / {
# maven repository
dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
create_full_put_path on;
dav_access user:rw group:rw all:r;
}
In Linux (Ubuntu): /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404; # IMPORTANT comment this
dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
create_full_put_path on;
dav_access user:rw group:rw all:r;
}
Don't forget to give permissions to the directory where the repo will be located:
sudo chmod +777 /var/www/html/repository
In your project's pom.xml add the respective configuration:
Retrieve artifacts:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>repository</id>
<url>http://<your.ip.or.hostname>/repository</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
Publish artifacts:
<build>
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
<artifactId>wagon-http</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
</build>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>repository</id>
<url>http://<your.ip.or.hostname>/repository</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
To publish artifacts use mvn deploy. To retrieve artifacts, maven will do it automatically.
And there you have it a simple maven repo.