Unable to get email-ext.hpi to work in hudson

Question

I have just setup hudson and have begun playing around with it.

1. I have downloaded the email-ext.hpi into the the folder $HUDSON_HOME\plugins
2. I have restarted hudson post-step1 ( i am following this manual method as i am unable to use (for proxy setting reasons) the automatic way of installing plugins via the "Manage hudson" page.
3. I dont see any errors when hudson starts. In fact i see the line INFO: Started all plugins

BUT:
When i start a project configuration page, I do not see the promised option "Editable Email Notification".

FYI:
1. I am able to setup and run few basic test builds and they run fine.
2. I am also able to configure and receive the default hudson emails for failures and subsequent successes.(This confirms the SMTP settings) 3. I was also aboe to setup the subversion tag hpi in the same way as detailed above and that works fine as well!

What am i missing? Thanks in advance for any help!

EXTRA INFO: Hudson version - 1.379 running on Windows XP

Answer 1

OK - i figured out a workaround (although i still need to dig into why this is a problem). Recording here for anyone else tha tmay face this issue.

The plugin when copied into the $HUDSON_HOME\plugin was somehow not really being activeated/recognized. But when i copied it over also to C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin.hudson\plugins and restarted hudson service, voila! it worked.

If anyone knows why this might have occured, kindly record it here for reference. Thanks.

Answer 2

To install a plugin you should use the easy route. In Hudson, go to 'Manage Hudson' -> 'Manager Plugins' -> 'Advanced' (its a tab) and use the 'upload plugin' option.

Than follow the instructions. Usually you have to restart Hudson to actually get the plugin.

Way saver than messing around with the file system. In general the approach you had should have been correct, but there seems to be an issue with your $HUDSON_HOME. Have a look at the "Manage Hudson" -> "Configure System" page. What is the Hudson Home directory displayed on the top of the page? I don't know what Hudson does if it can't access the Home Directory? My assumption is here that Hudson runs as a service with a user account rather than the local system account and that you used a different account to copy the hpi file.