So I installed Jenkins on my Windows machine, I had it working fine and was setting up my first pipeline when I got an error message about need to set Dhudson.plugins.git.gitscm.allow_local_checkout=true for local repositories. Did some googling and thought that maybe I could define it in the Jenkins.xml file in the Jenkins directory. ran Jenkins.exe stop to stop the service, made the change in Jenkins.xml then I ran Jenkins.exe start only for it to not start.
Did some more googling and found that I can run this command in command prompt by passing arguments to Java. I copy the command in Jenkins.xml and run
Java -Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.plugins.git.gitscm.allow_local_checkout=true -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "E:\Jenkins\jenkins.war" --httpPort=82 --webroot="%LocalAppData%\Jenkins\war
It run first time set-up again basically doing a fresh install, not a big deal I had just installed it anyways so it is not like I really lost anything. However now I cannot get Jenkins to start with out running the above command. It doesn't try to re-install again but here I sit having to leave a command prompt window open less it stops the Jenkins Service.
Does anyone know how I can stop this behavior? Sure I can re-install it, but I feel like I shouldn't have to and I don't want to be in a loop when trying to allow local git repos anyways.
All I wanted was to have a pipeline build a local repo and deploy it to nginx locally. I feel like that shouldn't be too hard.
*** EDIT ***
I tried creating my own service, to no avail.
sc.exe create Jenkins_Service binPath= "Java -Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.plugins.git.gitscm.allow_local_checkout=true -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "E:\Jenkins\jenkins.war" --httpPort=82 --webroot="%LocalAppData%\Jenkins\war""
I also noticed when trying to start the new custom Service I see the old Jenkins Service and I cannot start it, it says Process Terminated Unexpectedly. same message with my custom service.
*** EDIT 2 ***
Okay I got a new error message. I went into the Log On for the Service that I made and set it to use my username (I had already set my account as a service account when I had previously installed Jenkins) and now I get the error message Service did not start in a timely fashion
*** EDIT 3 ***
Now I am entirely unable to run Jenkins. I uninstalled the application and attempted a to reinstall and I keep getting "Jenkins setup wizard ended prematurely because of an error..."
I cannot get past this error.
