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Download And Configure Sonarqube

In this article, we will download and configure sonarqube server.

Installation Of Webserver

To install server

Go to https://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/
Download the community version

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Once downloaded, unzip the file and extract the content on your desired location.
Add following entry in environment variables.

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Execute Startsonar.Bat

StartSonar.bat should be executed first before browsing. StartSonar.bat is inside the bin folder.

In the bin folder, there are multiple folders based on your operating system. As I have windows operating system, so I am clicking on windows-x86-64.

Picture showing the different folders inside the sonarqube folder according to different operating systems

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Once you click on StartSonar.bat, it will start

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Error

While I was running StartSonar.bat, I am getting following error - Critical Error: Wait for JVM process failed.

To fix this issue

Open Conf/wrapper.conf and set the exact path of java

Picture showing the wrapper.conf file to set the path of java

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Add the path of java.exe in path in environment variables.

Run Sonarqube Web

To run the web

Open http://localhost:9000
Following screen will appear

Picture showing the home page of sonarqube web

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Click on Log in button to login to the system. By default user name is ‘Admin’ and password is ‘Admin’.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Wednesday, September 25, 2019

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