why i can't edit the maven index.html in the target directory

Question

I tried to edit my index.html file in my target directory. For an unknown reason, after the editing, it switches back to it's old version.

Answer 1

The target directory is the default output directory for Maven projects. If you are trying to edit a file, edit it from within the src directory. As soon as you clean, compile, install, etc the target directory will be overwritten with the latest output.

edit: are you sure you are editing the right file? Maybe you should be editing index.apt? https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/examples/creating-content.html