Jenkins on Mac OS X
For Mac OS X users, the Jenkins community provides a native PKG installer. This installer has a similar guided installation wizard as the Microsoft Windows one, and allows us to specify the traditional installation details. For users who wish to alter the Jenkins listening port or memory options, some command-line magic will be required.
To alter the Jenkins listening port, we need to explicitly define the port in the following properties file:
/Applications/Jenkins/winstone.properties
To accomplish this we will need to create the winstone.properties file if it does not already exist on our host, and detail the httpPort parameter inside it. An example of how to set httpPort in the winstone.properties file is shown here:
httpPort=80 ...
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