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Version 95.1 by Pascal Robert on 2009/07/03 13:12
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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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3 The complete introduction has been show on wowodc-west in 2009.
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5 There are a couple different ways to run Hudson. The easiest is to run it as a standalone application.
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7 === Standalone Installation ===
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10 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.
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13 1. Create a /Developer/Hudson/Home directory
14 1. Download Hudson From [[http://hudson.dev.java.net]]. Save the hudson.war file to /Developer/Hudson
15 1. Launch Hudson with the following command in Terminal.app:
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17 {{code}}
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19 java -DHUDSON_HOME=/Developer/Hudson/Home -jar /Developer/Hudson/hudson.war &
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23 1. Point your browser to: http:~/~/localhost:8080/hudson
24 1. Start setting up jobs!
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26 === Servlet Container Installation ===
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28 1. Install Tomcat from [[http://www.macports.org]] with the command
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32 sudo /opt/local/bin/port install tomcat6
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36 1. 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:
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38 {{code value="xml"}}
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40 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
41 <tomcat-users>
42 <role rolename="manager"/>
43 <role rolename="admin"/>
44 <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="admin,manager"/>
45 </tomcat-users>
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47 {{/code}}
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49 {{panel bgColor="#F7D6C1"}}
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51 Don't forget to change the username and password after you have finished checking out the build server and start using it in production.
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55 1. Start tomcat
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59 sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.tomcat6.plist
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63 1. download Hudson from [[http://hudson.dev.java.net]], take care that you use the contextual menu to download the link hudson war file
64 1. create a folder /opt/local/var/db/hudson (this will be the place where hudson will store it's stuff
65 1. change ownership of that folder with ownership //www:_www//
66 1. add to /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/setenv.local:
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70 export HUDSON_HOME=/opt/local/var/db/hudson
71 export JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true
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75 1. 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.
76 1. Goto [[http://localhost:8080/hudson]] and you can start configuring your Hudson build server
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79 === Building WO Apps ===
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81 * Check out [[^setupWorkspace.sh]]