Publishing grails 5 plugin to private repository - grails

Question

I want to upgrade an old plugin that is written in grails 2. But am having difficulties in setting up a new grails 5 plugin and it's build.gradle file. Seemingly nowhere it's documented how to publish a plugin to your own repository.
I created an empty grails 5.2.4 plugin project with this command
grails create-plugin newPluginProject --profile=plugin
this is the following build.gradle file that I have tried (part of it anyways)
apply plugin:"eclipse"
apply plugin:"idea"
apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-plugin"
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
apply plugin: "io.github.gradle-nexus.publish-plugin"
repositories {
maven {
url "http://company-nexus.com:8081/nexus/repository/maven-public/"
allowInsecureProtocol = true
credentials {
username "my-name"
password "my-password"
}
}
maven {
name "internal-releases"
url "http://company-nexus.com:8081/nexus/repository/maven-releases/"
allowInsecureProtocol = true
credentials {
username "my-name"
password "my-password"
}
}
maven {
name "internal-snapshots"
url "http://company-nexus.com:8081/nexus/repository/maven-snapshots/"
allowInsecureProtocol = true
credentials {
username "my-name"
password "my-password"
}
}
maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
}
publishing {
repositories {
maven {
url = "http://company-nexus:8081/nexus/repository/maven-releases/"
username = 'my-name'
password = 'my-password'
}
}
}
I did try to follow this guide and modify it for our use, but it seems that no combination of settings is working.
I looked at the documentation found at gradle nexus publish plugin. But it seems that grails completely ignores those settings
Grails seemingly doesn't support publishing plugins to your internal repository? Because the commands in grails documentation and even from documents found online don't work
What am I doing wrong?
I even tried this example from gradle nexus plugin and it is not even trying to connect to our repositories.
plugins {
id "java-library"
id "maven-publish"
id "io.github.gradle-nexus.publish-plugin" version "«version»"
}
publishing {
publications {
mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
from(components.java)
}
}
}
nexusPublishing {
repositories {
myNexus {
nexusUrl = uri("https://your-server.com/staging")
snapshotRepositoryUrl = uri("https://your-server.com/snapshots")
username = "your-username" // defaults to project.properties["myNexusUsername"]
password = "your-password" // defaults to project.properties["myNexusPassword"]
}
}
}