Play2 build file

Build.scala

import sbt._
import Keys._
import PlayProject._

object ApplicationBuild extends Build {

  val appName = "my_app"
  val appVersion = "1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  val appDependencies = Seq(
    // Add your project dependencies here,
  )

  val main = PlayProject(appName, appVersion, appDependencies).settings(    
    credentials := Credentials(
      "Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager",      //Matches Realm on my nexus server, i e "contentAuthcBasic.applicationName = Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager"
      "http://maven-repo.myhost.se",
      "username",
      "password"),
    publishTo :=  Some("Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager" at "http://maven-repo.myhost.se/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/")
  )
}

playsbt output

[error] ... *:publish: java.io.IOException: Access to URL http://maven-repo.myhost.se/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/myapp/myapp_2.9.1/1.0-SNAPSHOT/myapp_2.9.1-1.0-SNAPSHOT.pom was refused by the server: Unauthorized

Request headers

User-Agent: Apache Ivy/2.2.0
Content-type: application/octet-stream
Host: maven-repo.myhost.se:8081
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Content-Length: 1987

Response Headers

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: rememberMe=deleteMe; Path=/nexus; Max-Age=0; Expires=Wed, 21-Mar-2012 14:27:01 GMT
Set-Cookie: rememberMe=deleteMe; Path=/nexus; Max-Age=0; Expires=Wed, 21-Mar-2012 14:27:01 GMT
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=deleteMe; Path=/nexus; Max-Age=0; Expires=Wed, 21-Mar-2012 14:27:01 GMT
WWW-Authenticate: BASIC realm="Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager"
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 954
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:27:01 GMT