Starting Hudson server

Question

Is there an way of starting the hudson server with just the .jar files in .hudson\war\WEB-INF\lib\ ?? Is it necessary to extract it from the hudson.war file?? I am using windows and I don't want it to start as a service..

Answer 1

You don't need to extract the war file. You start hudson like this:

java -jar hudson.war

If you need to pass it command line arguments, you can do something like this:

java -Xmx512m -jar hudson.war --httpPort=8090 --prefix=/hudson --logfile=/tmp/hudson.log"

Answer 2

To start hudson, just run:

java -jar hudson.war

http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Starting+and+Accessing+Hudson