How Configure Atlassian JIRA On Linux Centos

JIRA sits at the center of your development team, connecting the people and the work being done. Track bugs and tasks, link issues to related source code, plan agile development, monitor activity, report on project status, and more.

Before installing JIRA on centos we need to install JAVA on it.

1. Install JAVA

JIRA Is an application written entirely in JAVA, and requires Javas JDK. Make sure you install JDK Update 20 if you want to use the JIRA Labels plugin. At the time of writing this, Labels has an issue with the latest version of java’s JDK which is JDK 6 Update 21. Proof: See this bug report.
Use wget to download JAVA directly to the server. I had to host the BIN’s on my server because Sun’s website uses session’s to store unique download URL’s. I could not locate a permanent links to the RPM’s on their site. If you (don’t trust me) and want to download directly from SUN, click here, then select JDK/JRE -6 “6 Update 20″:
64bit:

 wget http://www.iainlbc.com/jdk-6u20-linux-x64-rpm.bin

or the 32bit version:

 wget http://www.iainlbc.com/jdk-6u20-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Make the RPM Executable:

chmod +x jdk-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Install it!

./jdk-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Set JAVA_HOME:

nano ~/.bash_profile

Add the following line:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20

Run the following command (to set the variable for your current SSH Session):

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20

Test the new variable:

echo $JAVA_HOME

2. Install JIRA

Download the JIRA Standalone TAR (.GZ) file here.

cd ~
wget http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone.tar.gz

Unzip the downloaded file.

tar xzvf atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.2-standalone.tar.gz

Create JIRA Installation/Home Directory

mkdir /opt/jira

Copy Extracted files to JIRA’s Installation Directory (-R is for recursive)

cp -R atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.2-standalone/* /opt/jira/

Lets create a directory for JIRA to store attachments, indexes, and other stuff’s:

mkdir /opt/jira/home

Now, we need to set the JIRA HOME property:

nano /opt/jira/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties

Change the existing line (or a add new)

jira.home =

to

jira.home = /opt/jira/home

Almost done, we need to open up port 8080 in your local firewall (IPTABLES), or we won’t be able to hit JIRA from our browser:

nano /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Change this line:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject with icmp-host-prohibited

To include an additional line above it for 8080 traffic, like so:

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject with icmp-host-prohibited

Restore your new IPTABLES Rules:

/sbin/iptables-restore < /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Save them!:

service iptables save

Launch JIRA:

cd /opt/jira/bin 

./startup.sh

After launching, JIRA should spit out several things in command line, one should be our previously set JAVA_HOME path, if you do not see JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20 JIRA will not work.
Tail the logs to look for errors:

tail -f ../logs/catalina.out

Access JIRA in your browser:

http://<server-ip-address>:8080

 

Other:

If you cannot access JIRA (and there no complaints in the catalina.out log), you may need to open port 8080 on your physical firewall or add it to your local iptables. To see if port 8080 is in your iptables run:

/sbin/iptables -L

To change the port, you can do so easily by editing the /opt/jira/conf/server.xml file – Instructions here
If you want JIRA accessible on port 80 with the ability to host more websites than just JIRA on this server, you should use Apache as a Proxy. A tutorial on this is comming soon, for now check out JIRA’s docs on integrating apache.
If you run into any startup problems please paste your /opt/jira/logs/catalina.out log on this page, I’m happy to help.
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Example

Installing JIRA on CENTOS Step By Step

LinuxServer#
create a directory in home directory named "jira_server"
LinuxServer#mkdir /home/jira_server