Jenkins Setup Tutorial for Automation

This tutorial will guide you through the step by step procedure to setup jenkins on a ubuntu machine for automation purpose.

Connect to the remote machine using SSH and follow the below steps:

Install Java 8

sudo wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable/jenkins.io.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install jenkins
sudo systemctl start jenkins
sudo systemctl status jenkins (should be active)

sudo apt install apache2
sudo a2enmod proxy
sudo a2enmod proxy_http
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and add following code inside VirtualHost xml tag:
##### ############################################################ #### ##### ============================================================ #### ##### The Build Business Websites Jenkins and Apache Configuration #### ##### ============================================================ #### ##### ############################################################ #### ProxyPass /jenkins http://localhost:8080/jenkins nocanon ProxyPassReverse /jenkins http://localhost:8080/jenkins ProxyRequests Off AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode <Proxy http://localhost:8080/jenkins*> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ##### ============================================================ #### ##### ############################################################ ####
sudo vi /etc/default/jenkins and make sure
JENKINS_ARGS="--webroot=/var/cache/$NAME/war --httpPort=$HTTP_PORT --prefix=/jenkins"
sudo systemctl restart jenkins
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open the port 80 of the remote machine to make it accessible from local machine