How to install jira on freebsd manual
1. First of all you should register on atlassian.com site, select needed version, find url for download. Also this registration needed for obtaining jira license (doesn’t matter if its for evaluation or for parmanent use). In this article I have downloaded Jira 4.2
2. Create separate new user from root on your machine with command:
#adduser
(for example: jira, with shell for example: csh)
login under jira user
su - jira
3. Set patch to JAVA_HOME into .cshrc file, its reqired for installation. (By the way installation java also described on blog, use search if you dont have installed java yet)
setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk1.6.0
… and check if everything ok and freebsd knows where file is with command:
echo $JAVA_HOME
(dont forget re-login into new user session to see applied changes to .cshrc file)
4. Download package and untar it:
wget http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone.tar.gz
tar -zxvf atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone.tar.gz
(so you have it unarchived in directory: /home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone now)
5. Create new jira-home dir (this dir needed for all content & technical data which jira stores for internal and external needs: search indeces, user attachments), for exampe here:
mkdir /home/jira/jira-data
6. Before jira startup you should specify where jira.home dir is in file:
/home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone/WEB-INF/atlassian-jira/classes/jira-attlassian.properties
change:
jira.home = /home/jira/jira-data
7. Also before startup check if jira default port 8080 is not used yet by some other listener, for example apache or nginx. If so, you can change it in file:
/home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone/conf/server.xml Change lines:
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> ...... <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="8090" ......
7. Now start JIRA via running shell script:
./home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.2-standalone/bin/startup.sh
If no errors and everything done well – you’ll see next message and directory /home/jira/jira-data will be prefilled by some techical data/files structure.
JIRA Standalone Edition Detecting JVM PermGen support... PermGen switch is supported. Setting to 256m If you encounter issues starting or stopping JIRA Standalone Edition, please see the Troubleshooting guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Insta llation+Troubleshooting+Guide Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.2-standalone Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.2-standalone Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/home/jira/atlassian-jira-enterprise-4.1.2-standalone
8. Check if jira installed well and service really started with command:
sockstat -4
you should see this:
jira java 1283 50 tcp4 *:8090 *:* jira java 1283 51 tcp4 127.0.0.1:60196 127.0.0.1:54255
9. Now open it in you browser: http://192.168.81.128:8090, and you will see some last configs which needs to be made before finalization installation process: license, mailing option, etc.
Enjoy!