Github integration with Jenkins- github credentials not getting added in jenkins UI

Question

I have been trying to integrate jenkins with github using Jenkin's Github Plugin. My intension is to trigger a build whenever anything is pushed to master branch in github repo. I am following the instruction written on one of the blog (url http://nepalonrails.tumblr.com/post/14217655627/set-up-jenkins-ci-on-ubuntu-for-painless-rails3).

I am not able to add the Github credentials in "GitHub Plugin Configuration". There are no options available in the crdentials dropdown.

I clicked the "Add" button and filled the form opened in overlay. I saved it.

I still don't get the credentials added in previous step in the dropdown. And when I attempt "Verify Credentials", it is still having the error.

I am not sure, what am i doing wrong. Here are other details if it matters-

Jenkins Version: 1.652

Java version "1.7.0_95"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.4) (7u95-2.6.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode)

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

git version 1.9.1

I am sharing the error log /var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log-

On Git commit and push-

Mar 11, 2016 12:40:46 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.webhook.subscriber.DefaultPushGHEventSubscriber onEvent INFO: Received POST for https://github.com//

On attempt to save the credentials in pop-up-

Mar 11, 2016 12:29:00 PM org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.internal.GitHubLoginFunction applyNullSafe WARNING: Failed to login with creds java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://api.github.com/user at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:240) at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.huc.DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.getInputStream(DelegatingHttpsURLConnection.java:210) at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.huc.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:25) at org.kohsuke.github.Requester.parse(Requester.java:483) at org.kohsuke.github.Requester._to(Requester.java:236) at org.kohsuke.github.Requester.to(Requester.java:203) at org.kohsuke.github.GitHub.getMyself(GitHub.java:276) at org.kohsuke.github.GitHub.(GitHub.java:143) at org.kohsuke.github.GitHubBuilder.build(GitHubBuilder.java:196) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.internal.GitHubLoginFunction.applyNullSafe(GitHubLoginFunction.java:73) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.internal.GitHubLoginFunction.applyNullSafe(GitHubLoginFunction.java:46) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.util.misc.NullSafeFunction.apply(NullSafeFunction.java:18) at org.jenkinsci.plugins.github.config.GitHubServerConfig$DescriptorImpl.doVerifyCredentials(GitHubServerConfig.java:297) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function$InstanceFunction.invoke(Function.java:324) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvoke(Function.java:167) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Function.bindAndInvokeAndServeResponse(Function.java:100) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$1.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:124) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876) at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$5.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:233) at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:58) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649) at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:686) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1494) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:132) at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:123) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482) at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84) at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249) at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87) at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76) at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:171) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482) at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482) at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:81) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482) at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1474) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:499) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:533) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1086) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:428) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1020) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:370) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.content(AbstractHttpConnection.java:960) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1021) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:865) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:240) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:82) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:668) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:52) at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Answer 1

You have to create a token on github and then use "Secret Text" and not "Username with password" when creating your login in Jenkins.

Answer 2

You need to create the credentials under global jenkins configuration, and the credentials are for the github request builder plugin.