Installing TemCity 6.5 on debian stable(tomcat6/nginx)

Prepare:

sudo aptitude install tomcat6 nginx

Get TemCity:

wget http://download.jetbrains.com/teamcity/TeamCity-6.5.4.war

Initial setup:

creating <TeamCity Data directory>

mkdir /var/lib/teamcity-6.5
ln -s /var/lib/teamcity-6.5 /var/lib/teamcity
chown tomcat6:tomcat6 /var/lib/teamcity

and pointing TemCity to it’s data directory(add following to the end of /etc/tomcat6/catalina.properties)

teamcity.data.path=/var/lib/teamcity

then turn on tomcat and copy .war distribution in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps folder(known as “web applications directory”):

cp /root/teamcity-6.5.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps

after deploying .war file by tomcat copy teamcity-server-log4j.xml to unpacked teamcity’s conf directory, in this case to /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/teamcity-6.5/conf

teamcity-server-log4j.xml can be found in non-war distribution of TeamCity.

Logging setup:

creating log directory:

mkdir /var/log/teamcity
chown tomcat6:tomcat6 /var/log/teamcity

create file <TeamCity Data Directory>/config/internal.properties with following content in order to setup logging

log4j.configuration=../conf/teamcity-server-log4j.xml
teamcity_logs=/var/log/teamcity/

Memory setup

described here here

options should be written in /etc/default/tomcat6 to JAVA_OPTS env variable

also as mentioned here:

please add useBodyEncodingForURI=”true” attribute to the Connector tag for the server in Tomcat/conf/server.xml file.

Restart Tomcat

Then go to http://your.server.com:8080/teamcity-6.5 and follow instructions.

Nginx setup

server {
        listen   80; ## listen for ipv4
        server_name ci.test;
        access_log  /var/log/nginx/ci.access.log;

        root /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps;

        location / {
                rewrite  ^(.*)$  /ci   redirect;
        }

        location ~ (png|gif)$ {
        }

        # this location should be the same as this ||
        location /teamcity-6.5 {                 # \/
          proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/teamcity-6.5;
        }
}