Setting up Sonar in Local

Sonar Server Setup

1. Download the Sonar Server from http://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/
2. Download and Install MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench.
3. Go to MySQL Workbench and create a new Schema and name it 'sonar'.
4. Update the sonar.properties @location to <sonar server location>\conf.
   1. Comment the embedded database and uncomment the following line to use MySQL.
   2. sonar.jdbc.url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true
5. Comment out jdbc.url: jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:9092/sonar.
6. Set sonar.jdbc.username with value 'root' and sonar.jdbc.password as empty.
7. Go to <sonar server location>\bin and locate the folder as per your operating system.
8. Run StartSonar.bat from the folder.
9. Verify that your Server is up and running. http://localhost:9000(Default Port)

Sonar Runner Setup

1. Download the Sonar Runner from http://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/
2. Update the sonar.runner.properties @location to <sonar runner location>\conf.sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&rewriteBatchedStatements=true

Add Project to SONAR

1. Create a sonar-project.properties file with the following properties
   1. sonar.projectKey='YourProjectKey'(without quotes)
   2. sonar.projectName='YourProjectName'(without quotes)
   3. sonar.projectVersion=5.0
   4. sonar.projectDescription='Project Description'(without quotes)
   5. sonar.sources=(Path to the source code folder of your project)
   6. sonar.language=java
   7. sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
2. Save the above created properties file to your project folder.
3. Add the following path in environment variables
   1. <SonarRunnerLocation>/bin
4. Open CMD, navigate to your project folder where the above created properties file is placed and run sonar-runner command. This will run reports and upon successful execution, the sonar report can be viewed on the browser (http://localhost:9000)