diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-consumers/archiva-lucene-consumers/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-consumers/archiva-lucene-consumers/pom.xml
index d305e3e5d..6a3f6465e 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-consumers/archiva-lucene-consumers/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-base/archiva-consumers/archiva-lucene-consumers/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
   ~ under the License.
   -->
 
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <parent>
     <groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
@@ -97,17 +98,16 @@
             </excludes>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-        <configuration>
-          <systemPropertyVariables>
-            <plexus.home>${project.build.outputDirectory}</plexus.home>
-            <appserver.base>${basedir}/target/appserver-base</appserver.base>
-            <java.io.tmpdir>${project.build.outputDirectory}</java.io.tmpdir>
-          </systemPropertyVariables>
-        </configuration>
-      </plugin>
+        <plugin>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+          <configuration>
+            <systemPropertyVariables>
+              <appserver.base>${project.build.directory}/appserver-base</appserver.base>
+              <plexus.home>${project.build.directory}/appserver-base</plexus.home>
+            </systemPropertyVariables>
+          </configuration>
+        </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </pluginManagement>
   </build>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b6d77bdb4..03add1586 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@
             <redirectTestOutputToFile>${surefire.redirectTestOutputToFile}</redirectTestOutputToFile>
             <runOrder>alphabetical</runOrder>
             <systemPropertyVariables>
-              <java.io.tmpdir>${project.build.outputDirectory}</java.io.tmpdir>
+              <java.io.tmpdir>${project.build.directory}/temp</java.io.tmpdir>
             </systemPropertyVariables>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>