I just did a test with maven-site-plugin version 2.0-beta-7 (instead of 2.3) and with this one the build seems to run ok (!?).
<build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0-beta-7</version> </plugin> Can anyone confirm if this is a known bug? Regards, Johan. 2011/7/13 Johan Vogelzang <johan.vogelz...@gmail.com> > Hi Maven users, > > I've a problem with deploying a site to an url containing property > variables. > The site url -as part of the distributionManagement section- is located in > the company parent pom: > > <properties> > <reposerver.host.name>myrepohost</reposerver.host.name> > </properties> > ... > <distributionManagement> > <site> > <id>site-repo</id> > <url>scp://${reposerver.host.name}/var/www/html/maven2/sites</url> > </site> > </distributionManagement> > > When I execute "mvn help:effective-pom" I see that the url is correctly > resolved to: scp://myrepohost/var/www/html/maven2/sites > But when I execute "mvn site-deploy" the build fails with an > UnknownHostException. In the logging I see that the url is not resolved: > > [INFO] [site:deploy {execution: default-deploy}] > scp://${reposerver.host.name}/var/www/html/maven2/sites - Session: > Connection refused > scp://${reposerver.host.name}/var/www/html/maven2/sites - Session: > Disconnecting > scp://${reposerver.host.name}/var/www/html/maven2/sites - Session: > Disconnected > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Error uploading site > > Embedded error: Cannot connect. Reason: java.net.UnknownHostException: ${ > reposerver.host.name} > > Thanks in advance, > -- > Johan Vogelzang > -- Johan Vogelzang