Installing and Using the Hudson build server
Version 84.1 by Johan Henselmans on 2009/06/10 10:34
Hudson is a build server that takes the chore of the building and can do it automatically, based on all kinds of variables.
The complete introduction has been show on wowodc-west in 2009.
Installing Hudson
To get Hudson running, the easiest way is to start running tomcat on a server.
- Install Tomcat from http://www.macports.org with the command
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- 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)
something along the line of:
<?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.
- Start tomcat
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- download Hudson from http://hudson.dev.java.net, take care that you use the contextual menu to download the link hudson war file
- create a folder /opt/local/var/db/hudson (this will be the place where hudson will store it's stuff
- change ownership of that folder with ownership www:_www
- add to /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/setenv.local:
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- install Hudson in Tomcat: goto http://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.
Next goto http://localhost:8080/hudson and you can start configuring your Hudson build server