Jenkins Multibranch pipeline rebuild issue

Question

I am trying to create a webhook handler for my github project for restarting the last ran Jenkins build for my PR when the PR is approved.

I have configured the Github webhook for my application to read the webhook payload and restart the specific Jenkins Multibranch pipeline job.

I have tried restarting the last Jenkins job in my browser by running https://<jenkins_url>/job/<repo_name>/job/<branch_name>/lastBuild/rebuild which is restarting the last Jenkins build for that branch successfully.

But when I tried to do the same using curl -X POST "https://<username>:<jenkins_token>@<jenkins_url>/job/<repo_name>/job/<branch_name>/lastBuild/rebuild which is not returning any error but not restarting the job though.

Can anyone suggest me how to restart/rebuild the last Jenkins build for a job using curl command.

Answer 1

If you do not need to pass in parameters you should be able to just do a GET instead of a POST which is essentially what you're doing by visiting through the browser. Doing that may fix your issue assuming you are hitting the right URL with your curl command.