Intellij Community can’t use http proxy for Maven

1. Navigate to Maven > Importing¹. inside the IntelliJ IDEA Settings (which is found under File > Settings).

2. The second last option in Maven > Importing is a field named “VM options for importer”. Append the following to whatever already exists there:

   -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=myproxy.com -DproxyPort=3128

   Here, replace myproxy.com with your proxy server, (e.g. http://myproxyserver.com). Replace 3128 with your proxy port (e.g. 8080).

3. Do the same under Maven > Runner¹

4. Apply and close the settings window.

It should work now.

¹ This may be nested under Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools >, depending on the version of IntelliJ you’re using.