By default, the latest release and the Long-Term support release will be available for download. The past releases are also available for download. Click the Long-Term Support Release tab within the download section.

Click the link “Older but stable version” to download the Jenkins war file.

Starting Jenkins

Open the command prompt. From the command prompt, browse to the directory where the jenkins.war file is present. Run the subsequent command

D:\>Java –jar Jenkins.war

After the command is run, various tasks will run, one of which is the extraction of the war file which is done by an embedded webserver called winstone.

D:\>Java –jar Jenkins.war

Running from: D:\jenkins.war

Webroot: $user.home/ .jenkins

Sep 29, 2015 4:10:46 PM winstone.Logger logInternal

INFO: Beginning extraction from war file

Once the processing is complete without major errors, the subsequent line will come within the output of the command prompt.

INFO: Jenkins is fully up and running

Accessing Jenkins

Once Jenkins is up and running, one can access Jenkins from the link − http://localhost:8080

This link will bring up the Jenkins dashboard.

Jenkins – Tomcat Setup

The subsequent prerequisites must be met for Jenkins Tomcat setup.

Step 1: Verifying Java Installation

To verify Java installation, open the console and execute the subsequent java command.
OS Task Command
Windows Open command console \>java –version
Linux Open command terminal $java –version
If Java has been installed properly on your system, then you should get one of the subsequent outputs, depending on the platform you are working on.
OS Output
Windows Java version “1.7.0_60”
Java (TM) SE Run Time Environment (build 1.7.0_60-b19)
Java Hotspot (TM) 64-bit Server VM (build 24.60-b09, mixed mode)
Linux java version “1.7.0_25”
Open JDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.3.10.4.el6_4-x86_64)
Open JDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

We assume the readers of this tutorial have Java 1.7.0_60 installed on their system before proceeding for this tutorial.

In case you do not have Java JDK, you can download it from the link Oracle

Step 2: Verifying Java Installation

Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory location where Java is installed on your machine. For example,

OS Output
Windows Set Environmental variable JAVA_HOME to C:\ProgramFiles\java\jdk1.7.0_60
Linux export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java-current

Append the full path of the Java compiler location to the System Path.

OS Output
Windows Append the String; C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_60\bin to the end of the system variable PATH.
Linux export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin/
Verify the command java-version from command prompt as explained above.

Step 3: Download Tomcat

The official website for tomcat is Tomcat. If you click the given link, you can get the home page of the tomcat official website as shown below.

Browse to the link https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi to get the download for tomcat.

Go to the ‘Binary Distributions’ section. Download the 32-bit Windows zip file.

Then unzip the contents of the downloaded zip file.

Step 4: Jenkins and Tomcat Setup

Copy the Jenkis.war file which was downloaded from the previous section and copy it to the webapps folder within the tomcat folder.

Now open the command prompt. From the command prompt, browse to the directory where the tomcat7 folder is location. Browse to the bin directory in this folder and run the start.bat file

E:\Apps\tomcat7\bin>startup.bat

Once the processing is complete without major errors, the subsequent line will come within the output of the command prompt.

INFO: Server startup in 1302 ms

Open the browser and go to the link − http://localhost:8080/jenkins. Jenkins will be up and running on tomcat.

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