Remote Maven Build Cache with Nginx

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<cache ...>
    <configuration>
        ...
        <remote enabled="true" id="remote-cache">
            <url>http://localhost:8088</url>
        </remote>
        ...
    </configuration>
    ...
</cache>

<settings  ...>
  ...
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>remote-cache</id>
      <username>...</username>
      <password>...</password>
    </server>
    ....

events {
  worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
  server {
    index index.html;
    root /var/www;

    location / {
      limit_except GET {
        auth_basic "Nginx Maven Build Cache";
        auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.htpasswd;
      }
      autoindex on;
      dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;
      create_full_put_path on;
      dav_access group:rw  all:r;
    }
  }
}

# Use the same username and password as you have set in settings.xml above
$ REMOTE_CACHE_USER=...
$ REMOTE_CACHE_PASSWORD=...
$ docker run --rm --entrypoint htpasswd httpd:2 -Bbn $REMOTE_CACHE_USER $REMOTE_CACHE_PASSWORD > nginx.htpasswd

$ mkdir -p www/v1
$ chmod -R 777 www

$ docker run -p 8088:80 \
    -v ./nginx.htpasswd:/etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.htpasswd:ro \
    -v ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro \
    -v ./www:/var/www \
    nginx