That is an obvious typo that should be fixed. Afterwards, the site generation works correct: With this patch: mvn -X site [...] [INFO] [site:site] [DEBUG] Mapped url: /home/scratch/velocity/site/doxia-velocity-renderer/src/site to relative path: src/site [DEBUG] Reading site descriptor from src/site/site.xml [DEBUG] Mapped url: /home/scratch/velocity/site/doxia-velocity-renderer/src/site to relative path: ../src/site [...] Without this patch, the site plugins opens src/site/site.xml twice. This leads to all kinds of strange behaviour like having custom powered by logos twice.