Wiki source code of Installing and Using the Hudson build server
                  Version 78.1 by Johan Henselmans on 2009/06/10 10:17
              
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      78.1 | 1 | Hudson is a build server that takes the chore of the building and can do it automatically, based on all kinds of variables. | 
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      78.1 | 3 | The complete introduction has been show on wowodc-west in 2009. | 
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      78.1 | 5 | Installing Hudson | 
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      78.1 | 7 | To get Hudson running, the easiest way is to start running tomcat on a server. | 
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      78.1 | 9 | * Install Tomcat from macports (60 mins), with the command | 
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      37.1 | 11 | sudo /opt/local/bin/port install tomcat6 | 
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      78.1 | 12 | ~==================================== | 
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      78.1 | 14 | * Create an administrative user in /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml (20 mins to find out where the user should be and how not to restart tomcat) | 
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      78.1 | 16 | something along the line of: | 
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      78.1 | 18 | ~======================== | 
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      37.1 | 19 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> | 
| 20 | <tomcat-users> | ||
| 21 | <role rolename="manager"/> | ||
| 22 | <role rolename="admin"/> | ||
| 23 | <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,manager"/> | ||
| 24 | </tomcat-users> | ||
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      78.1 | 25 | ~======================== | 
| 26 | (remember this is testing) | ||
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      78.1 | 28 | * Start tomcat, (1 min) | 
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      78.1 | 30 | ~======================== | 
| 31 | sudo launchctl load --w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.tomcat6.plist | ||
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      78.1 | 34 | * download Hudson from hudson.dev.java.net, take care that you use the contextual menu to download the link hudson war file | 
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      78.1 | 36 | * create a folder /opt/local/var/db/hudson (this will be the place where hudson will store it's stuff | 
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      78.1 | 38 | * change ownership of that folder with ownership //www:_www// | 
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      78.1 | 40 | * add to /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/setenv.local: | 
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      78.1 | 42 | ~======================== | 
| 43 | export HUDSON//HOME=/opt/local/var/db/hudson | ||
| 44 | export JAVA//OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true | ||
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      78.1 | 47 | * install Hudson in Tomcat: goto localhost:8080, login with the user and password that you have created in the tomcat-users.xml, and upload hudson.war to the tomcat server. | 
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      78.1 | 49 | Next |