Steps to Install JIRA on CentOS/Fedora/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian

JIRA is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian, commonly used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management system. Here are the steps to install JIRA

Install JAVA

I already have a tutorial on installing Java. Please find it here and complete the steps.

Install JIRA

After installing Java, go to “/opt”. Create directory /opt/jira and /opt/jira/home.

cd /opt
mkdir /opt/jira
mkdir /opt/jira/home
cd /opt/jira

Download latest JIRA from “http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download” ( standalone ).

wget http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-5.0.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf atlassian-jira-5.0.4.tar.gz
cd /opt/jira/atlassian-jira-5.0.4-standalone/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes
vim jira-application.properties
---
jira.home = /opt/jira/home
---

Go to the Jira bin directory and start to execute the installation script.

cd /opt/jira/atlassian-jira-5.0.4-standalone/bin
./start-jira.sh

HTTP Port: 8080

RMI Port: 8005

To change port

cd /opt/atlassian/jira/conf

Edit the file “server.xml” to change the port.

Start and stop service.

cd /opt/atlassian/jira/bin

You can see the “start-jira.sh” and “stop-jira.sh” there.

So that’s how you install JIRA!