In situations where you have existing web sites on your server, you may find it useful to run Jenkins (or the servlet container that Jenkins runs in) behind Nginx, so that you can bind Jenkins to the part of a bigger website that you may have. This section discusses some of the approaches for doing this.
When a request arrives for certain URLs, Nginx becomes a proxy and forwards that request to Jenkins, then it forwards the response back to the client.
This 9 minute video tutorial from Darin Pope configures Nginx as a reverse proxy.
The Nginx configuration fragment below provides an example Nginx reverse proxy configuration. It assumes the Jenkins controller and the Nginx reverse proxy are running on the same computer.
upstream jenkins {
keepalive 32; # keepalive connections
server 127.0.0.1:8080; # jenkins ip and port
}
# Required for Jenkins websocket agents
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default upgrade;
'' close;
}
server {
listen 80; # Listen on port 80 for IPv4 requests
server_name jenkins.example.com; # replace 'jenkins.example.com' with your server domain name
# this is the jenkins web root directory
# (mentioned in the output of "systemctl cat jenkins")
root /var/run/jenkins/war/;
access_log /var/log/nginx/jenkins.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/jenkins.error.log;
# pass through headers from Jenkins that Nginx considers invalid
ignore_invalid_headers off;
location ~ "^/static/[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\/(.*)$" {
# 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]{8}\/(.*)" /$1 last;
}
location /userContent {
# have nginx handle all the static requests to userContent folder
# 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 / {
sendfile off;
proxy_pass http://jenkins;
proxy_redirect default;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
# Required for Jenkins websocket agents
proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
#this is the maximum upload size
client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_request_buffering off; # Required for HTTP CLI commands
proxy_set_header Connection ""; # Clear for keepalive
}
}
This assumes that you run Jenkins on port 8080. Remember to create the folder /var/log/nginx/jenkins.
The context path is the prefix of a URL path.
The Jenkins controller and the reverse proxy must use the same context path.
For example, if the Jenkins controller URL is https://www.example.com/jenkins/ then the --prefix=/jenkins
argument must be included in the Jenkins controller command line arguments.
Set the context path when using the Linux packages by running systemctl edit jenkins
and adding the following:
[Service]
Environment="JENKINS_PREFIX=/jenkins"
Set the context path on Windows controllers by including the --prefix
command line argument in the jenkins.xml
file in the installation directory.
Ensure that Jenkins is running at the context path where your reverse proxy is serving Jenkins. You will have the least pain if you keep to this principle.
The --prefix
command line argument is not needed if the context path is empty.
For example, the URL https://jenkins.example.com/ has an empty context path.
If you are having problems with some paths (eg folders) with Blue Ocean, you may need to add the following snippet to your proxy configuration:
if ($request_uri ~* "/blue(/.*)") {
proxy_pass http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:YOUR_JENKINS_PORT/blue$1;
break;
}
To give Nginx permission to read Jenkins web root folder, add the nginx
user to
the Jenkins group:
usermod -aG jenkins nginx
If the last command failed because the nginx
user is not defined in the system,
then you can try adding the www-data
user to the Jenkins group:
usermod -aG jenkins www-data
If you are experiencing timeouts when attempting to run long CLI
commands through a proxy in Jenkins, you can increase the
proxy_read_timeout
setting as necessary.
Older versions of Jenkins may not respect the proxy_read_timeout
setting.
If you are experiencing the following error when attempting to run long
CLI commands in Jenkins and Jenkins is running behind Nginx, it
is probably due to Nginx timing out the CLI connection.
You can increase the proxy_read_timeout
setting as necessary so the command will
complete successfully.
WARNING: null
hudson.cli.DiagnosedStreamCorruptionException
Read back: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x1e 0x07
'Started reverse-proxy-test #68'
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x07 0x0a
Read ahead:
Diagnosis problem:
java.io.IOException: Premature EOF
at sun.net.www.http.ChunkedInputStream.readAheadBlocking(ChunkedInputStream.java:565)
...
at hudson.cli.FlightRecorderInputStream.analyzeCrash(FlightRecorderInputStream.java:82)
at hudson.cli.PlainCLIProtocol$EitherSide$Reader.run(PlainCLIProtocol.java:153)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Premature EOF
at sun.net.www.http.ChunkedInputStream.readAheadBlocking(ChunkedInputStream.java:565)
...
at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:387)
at hudson.cli.PlainCLIProtocol$EitherSide$Reader.run(PlainCLIProtocol.java:111)
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