Jenkins Installation

How to install Jenkins?

Download Jenkins

Official website for Jenkins is Jenkins. By clicking on the given link, home page of the Jenkins official website will be displayed as shown below.

By default, latest release and the Long-Term support release is available for download. Past releases are also available for download. Click on the Long-Term Support Release tab in the download section.

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

Starting Jenkins

Open the command prompt and browse the directory where the jenkins.war file is present. Run below command
D:\>Java –jar Jenkins.war.
After running the command, 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

After processing is completed without major errors, below line comes in 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