Step by step how I installed Atlassian Jira on Centos 5.2.

Download JIRA Enterprise (current version 3.12.3)

cd /tmp
wget http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-enterprise-3.12.3.tar.gz
useradd --create-home -c "Jira role account" jira
mkdir -p /opt/jira
cd /opt/jira/
tar xvfz /tmp/atlassian-jira-enterprise-3.12.3-standalone.tar.gz
ln -s atlassian-jira-enterprise-3.12.3-standalone/ current
chown -R jira: /opt/jira

Create file /etc/init.d/jira

chmod +x /etc/init.d/jira
chkconfig --add jira
chkconfig jira on

Check ports in current/conf/server.xml
I changed Server port=”8002″ and Connector port=”8082″

Start Jira now and check log file

/etc/init.d/jira start
less /opt/jira/current/logs/catalina.out

If everything went all right, you should see Setup Wizard on http://serverip:8082

Setup mysql database

If you don’t have Mysql server installed, do it now.

yum install mysql-server
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on

Next, create database user for jira

mysql -u root -p
create database jiradb character set utf8;
grant all privileges on jiradb.* to jirauser@localhost identified by 'mypassword' with grant option;
flush privileges;
quit

Next, get MySQL/J JDBC driver and install it

cd /tmp
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.linux.cz/
tar xvfz mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.tar.gz
cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.6/mysql-connector-java-5.1.6-bin.jar /opt/jira/current/common/lib/

Now we need to edit some configuration files to get MySQL working.

Edit /opt/jira/current/conf/server.xml and set

<Context path="" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" reloadable="false">
  <Resource name="jdbc/JiraDS" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
    username="jirauser"
    password="ji123ra"
    driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
    url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/jiradb?autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF8"/>

Next, edit /opt/jira/current/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/entityengine.xml and set

    <datasource name="defaultDS" field-type-name="mysql"
      helper-class="org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericHelperDAO"
      check-on-start="true"
      use-foreign-keys="false"
      use-foreign-key-indices="false"
      check-fks-on-start="false"
      check-fk-indices-on-start="false"
      add-missing-on-start="true"
      check-indices-on-start="true">

Now, restart JIRA and return back to JIRA Setup Wizzard at http://server_ip:8082

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