How to install SonarQube ?

Install SonarQube

Sonar server

• It acts as a sonar server. 
• Download the Sonar Qube 4.0 from http://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/  
• Extract the zip and put at the VM at a location (For example: /home/sonarqube-4.0)

  

MySQL 

   1. Download and install MySql version 5.x 

   2. Create a database named “sonar” 

   3. Start the mysql service through command prompt.

   4. Download SQL Yog and connect to MySQL with username and password. 

Configuration of SonarQube

1. Set Sonar properties  

Open sonarqube-4.0\conf\ sonar.properties

Update JDBC properties  

sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://10.239.199.97:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true&useConfigs=maxPerformance 

sonar.jdbc.username=root 

sonar.jdbc.password=root 

sonar.jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Update Sonar server properties  

sonar.host.url=http://10.170.208.95:8090 

sonar.web.host=10.170.208.95 

sonar.web.port=8090 

sonar.web.context=/ 

2. Setup MySQL 

Create a database named “sonar” 

# su – mysql 

$ . myqenv 

$ mysql –uroot -proot  

create database sonar 

Ensure that MySQL instance is running and able to connect database “sonar” through SQLYog.

All the tables would be created automatically after the sonar ant task would run.

3. Start the sonar server  

Go to  sonarqube-4.0\bin and select your operating system (Eg: windows-x86-64 for window 7) and start Sonar server 

Example 

cd C:\E_Drive\sonarqube-4.0\bin\windows-x86-64 

Run the StartSonar.bat file.

Linux 

$ /home/sonarqube-4.0/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start | stop | status

Check sonar logs 

$ tail -f /home/sonarqube-4.0/logs/sonar.log

Check the sonar process  

$ ps -aef | grep java