Nginx – Jenkins has no list of available plugins / can’t update

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I just installed Jenkins 1.575 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. When I go to the plugins section to add plugins, nothing shows up. If I go to Advanced and click check now, it just hangs at Updating….

  • I am running nginx to do a proxy pass for port 80 to port 8080 where
    jenkins is running. I don't know much on configuring nginx. When I
    first started Jenkins, I had the reverse proxy error but dismissed it. Not sure if that is related.
  • I also had ufw running but disabling that did not help
  • I also don't see any errors in the Jenkins log

My nginx.conf related to Jenkins:

http {
        server {
           listen 80 default;
            server_name _;
            location /{
                  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                  proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                  proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
                  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                  proxy_redirect http://localhost:8080 $scheme://localhost;
                }
        }
 .....

Any clue on how to fix this?

Best Answer

I found a solution (at least temporary) in @rcomblen answer to: Unable to find plugins in list of available plugins in Jenkins. It has you manually download the plugin list and post it to Jenkins.

I think the problem may have to do with my VPN. The VPN isn't setup that well and doesn't let you connect to the internet through the VPN. So when I click the button to update the plugin list, I think it tries to download from my browser instead of on the server and Jenkins isn't able to download the plugin list.

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