Starting https Jenkins server on 127.0.0.1

Question

Embarrassingly enough I am one page into Jenkins Continuous Integration Cookbook and I'm already stuck on this command:

Java -jar jenkins.war --httpsPort=8443 --httpPort=-1

On my Mac, this throws up with:

Running from: /home/NAThompson/jenkins/war/target/jenkins.war
webroot: $user.home/.jenkins
Feb 22, 2015 7:37:24 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Beginning extraction from war file
Using one-time self-signed certificate
Feb 22, 2015 7:37:24 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Winstone shutdown successfully
Feb 22, 2015 7:37:24 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
SEVERE: Container startup failed
java.io.IOException: Failed to start a listener: winstone.HttpsConnectorFactory
    at winstone.Launcher.spawnListener(Launcher.java:209)
    at winstone.Launcher.<init>(Launcher.java:149)
    at winstone.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:354)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
    at Main._main(Main.java:293)
    at Main.main(Main.java:98)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/security/x509/CertAndKeyGen
    at winstone.HttpsConnectorFactory.start(HttpsConnectorFactory.java:100)
    at winstone.Launcher.spawnListener(Launcher.java:207)
    ... 8 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 10 more

What can I do to get around this? As extraneous info, the server starts just fine using http.

Answer 1

This looks like a known issue with trying to use HTTPS directly from the jenkins.war. Some have suggested running Jenkins from within Tomcat and letting Tomcat handle SSL (I've not tried this personally yet, however).