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Installing and Using the Hudson build server

Version 110.1 by Johan Henselmans on 2010/08/18 21:01
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Hudson is an "extensible continuous integration server".  It monitors repeated executions of jobs, such as building software projects, and can be used to build WebObjects applications and frameworks.  Hudson is an open source project, and can be used at no cost.  An introductory presentation on building WebObjects projects with Hudson was given by Mike Schrag at WOWODC-West in 2009, and the video can be purchased from wocommunity.org.

Setting up Hudson

There are a couple different ways to run Hudson. The easiest is to run it as a standalone application.

Standalone Installation

Information

These instructions are based on David Avendasora's setup. You may have different preferences as to where to install Hudson at or where to set its home directory to.

  1. Create a /Developer/Hudson/Home directory.
  2. Download Hudson, saving hudson.war file to /Developer/Hudson.
  3. Launch Hudson with the following command in Terminal.app:

java -DHUDSON_HOME=/Developer/Hudson/Home -jar /Developer/Hudson/hudson.war
Information

If you have an instance of Tomcat or AJP running in a different process you can also use the {{\-}}}{-}httpPort{- and {{\-ajp13Port}} options to change the ports used.
{code}
java -DHUDSON_HOME=/Developer/Hudson/Home -jar /Developer/Hudson/hudson.war -httpPort=9080 ajp13Port=9009
{code}

  1. Point your browser to: http://localhost:8080/
  2. Start setting up jobs

Servlet Container Installation on Mac OS X (10.5, 10.6)

  1. Install Tomcat from http://www.macports.org with the command

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  1. Create an administrative user in /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

Don't forget to change the username and password after you have finished checking out the build server and start using it in production.

  1. Start Tomcat.

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  1. Download Hudson, saving hudson.war somewhere for later.
  2. Create a folder for Hudson to work in: /opt/local/var/db/hudson
  3. Change ownership of that folder: chown www:_www /opt/local/var/db/hudson
  4. Add the following to /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/setenv.local:

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  1. Install Hudson in Tomcat: go to http://localhost:8080, login with the user and password that you have created in tomcat-users.xml, and upload hudson.war to the Tomcat server.
  2. Goto http://localhost:8080/hudson and you can start configuring your Hudson build server.

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  1. Tomcat is by default installed on Mac OS X Server.
  2. Create an administrative user in&nbsp;/Library/Tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
<role rolename="manager"/>
<role rolename="admin"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users> 

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  1. The way to start it depends on the version. The current way is to go to the Web Settings in Server Admin, Settings, General, check the Tomcat checkbox. Restart the WebServer.&nbsp;
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    http://hudson-ci.org/latest/hudson.war, saving&nbsp;hudson.war&nbsp;somewhere for later.
  3. Create a folder for Hudson to work in:&nbsp;/Library/hudson
  4. Change ownership of that folder:&nbsp;chown appserver:sys /Library/Hudson
  5. Add the following to&nbsp;/Library/Tomcat/bin/setenv.sh:

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  1. Make sure that you are using UTF8 in the Connector, by adding 

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to the Connector in /Library/tomcat/conf/server.xml in such a way:

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  1. Install Hudson in Tomcat: go to&nbsp;Unknown macro: color. Click on this message for details.
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    http://localhost:8080, login with the user and password that you have created in&nbsp;tomcat-users.xml, and upload&nbsp;hudson.war&nbsp;to the Tomcat server.
     Goto&nbsp;http://localhost:8080/hudsonhttp://localhost:8080/hudson&nbsp;and you can start configuring your Hudson build server.

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