How to configure Jenkins to run on port 80

Question

I\'m running Ubuntu 11.10 and have run sudo apt-get install jenkins to install Jenkins on this system.

I\'ve seen some tutorials on how to setup a rever

Answer 1

Give a try to 'authbind':

sudo apt-get install authbind
sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 500 /etc/authbind/byport/80 
sudo chown jenkins /etc/authbind/byport/80

Then modify the script above to have (add authbind before the $JAVA_HOME/bin/java part):

exec daemon --name=jenkins --inherit --output=$JENKINS_LOG/jenkins.log \
--user=$USER -- authbind $JAVA_HOME/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS \
-jar $JENKINS_ROOT/jenkins.war $JENKINS_ARGS \
--preferredClassLoader=java.net.URLClassLoader

For newer Jenkins installations (1.598) on newer Ubuntu installations (14.04) edit /etc/init.d/jenkins and add authbind before $JAVA

$SU -l $JENKINS_USER --shell=/bin/bash -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS -- authbind $JAVA $JAVA_ARGS -jar $JENKINS_WAR $JENKINS_ARGS" || return 2

As mentioned by Alan (see comment below) if you need IPv6 and your system is lower than Quantal you can instead of using apt-get to install authbind download a higher version. Make sure you have libc6 and libc6-udeb installed. Here is authbind version 2.1.1 from Ubuntu:

• amd64
• i386

Then execute:

sudo dpkg -i authbind_2.1.1_amd64.deb
# or sudo dpkg -i authbind_2.1.1_i386.deb

sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 500 /etc/authbind/byport/80 
sudo chown jenkins /etc/authbind/byport/80