Nginx conf for redirecting jenkins

jenkins-nginx.conf

server {
  listen          80;       # Listen on port 80 for IPv4 requests

  server_name     build.yourdomain.com;

  access_log      /var/log/nginx/jenkins_access.log;
  error_log       /var/log/nginx/jenkins_error.log;

  location ~ ^/static/[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\/(.*)$ {
    #rewrite all static files into requests to the root
    #E.g /static/12345678/css/something.css will become /css/something.css
    rewrite "^/static/[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]\/(.*)" /$1 last;
  }

  location /userContent {
        #have nginx handle all the static requests to the userContent folder files
        #note : This is the $JENKINS_HOME dir
	root /var/lib/jenkins/;
        if (!-f $request_filename){
           #this file does not exist, might be a directory or a /**view** url
           rewrite (.*) /$1 last;
	   break;
        }
	sendfile on;
  }

  location @jenkins {
      sendfile off;
      proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8080;
      proxy_redirect     off;

      proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
      proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;

      #this is the maximum upload size
      client_max_body_size       10m;
      client_body_buffer_size    128k;

      proxy_connect_timeout      90;
      proxy_send_timeout         90;
      proxy_read_timeout         90;

      proxy_buffer_size          4k;
      proxy_buffers              4 32k;
      proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
      proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
  }

  location / {
      root            /var/cache/jenkins/war/;
      try_files $uri @jenkins;
   }
}

jenkins_centos_install.md

Build Box

Setup

these instructions are for a CentOS 6 server

Install Jenkins

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins.repo
sudo rpm --import http://pkg.jenkins-ci.org/redhat/jenkins-ci.org.key
sudo yum install jenkins

Start jenkins

sudo service jenkins start