The following webpage has detailed instructions for installing and configuring SonarQube on a RHEL/CentOS 7 Linux server (real or virtual) and it was one of the best guides I’ve seen (and I’ve reviewed half a dozen):
The webpage outlines how to update your Linux server, how to install MySQL (as a data repository) on it, and how to then install SonarQube software on the server.
Some things to note. First, this procedures has you using wget to get v6.0 of SonarQube:
Check out the page https://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/ and see the latest version of SonarQube (e.g. 6.4) and replace “sonarqube-6.0.zip” with the latest version (e.g. “sonarqub-6.4.zip”.)
One important thing to note: this procedure creates a userid and database called sonarqube.
Later in the process, the changes made to /opt/sonarqube/conf/sonar.properties needs to match this:
sonar.jdbc.username=sonarqube sonar.jdbc.password=password
sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonarqube?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true&useConfigs=maxPerformance
If the userid, password and database you created in MySQL do not match what it is the sonar.properties file, you will see cannot connect to the database errors in the /opt/sonarqube/logs/web.log file and SonarQube will not come up.
Once you enter: sudo ./sonar.sh start
Get the IP address of the SonarQube server and then go to a browser and enter:
- http://<ip address>:9000
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