Environment Used

• Java SE 7 (1.7_079)
• Maven Eclipse Plugin– Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
• JBoss Application Server (AS) 7.1.1.Final(Latest stable released version is 7.1.1.Final) or Tomcat 7.0.65(Demo was using tomcat 7.0.65 with 8081 free port in my machine, change as per your free port)
• Operating System : Windows XP/7/8, 32/64 bit (Demo was using windows 7, 64 bit)

Installation of Jekin Description

Download the Jenkin War

Step 1) Go to http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/latest/jenkins.war and download war for tomcat server.

Download the Tomcat Zip

Step2) Go to http://www.us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.65/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.65-windows-x64.zip or Go link https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi and click on “64-bit Windows zip (pgp, md5, sha1) “

Step 3) Extract the “apache-tomcat-7.0.65-windows-x64” zip

Step 4) Change the HTTP port by traversing the path “apache-tomcat-7.0.65-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.65\conf” and modifying the “server.xml” file

Step 5) Run the tomcat by running the “catalina.bat start” from “apache-tomcat-7.0.65-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.65\bin”

• In case of port binding error occurs during server run, please change the port from “8085” “8088”

Step 6) after modifying the port re-run the above command in new command prompt and access the URL: http://localhost:8088/

Step 7) add the Admin and Jenkin User to Tomcat for Security reason by modifying the “apache-tomcat-7.0.65/conf/tomcat-users.xml”

Step 8) first stops the tomcat server by running the command “catalina.bat stop” and start again “catalina.bat start”

Step 9) Go to link http://localhost:8088/ and click on manager app and system will ask for user and password, provide the user/password as “admin/nimda”

Tomcat Server Home

Tomcat Server Admin

Step 10) Copy the downloaded Jenkin war “http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/latest/jenkins.war” to tomcat webapp folder “apache-tomcat-7.0.65-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.65\webapps”

Step 11) after deploy the war in tomcat access the Jenkin application by url: http://localhost:8088/jenkins/ and Jenkin Home page will open.