How to enable SSL on JIRA software (Centos 7)

In this short tutorial i will go through how to enable SSL on Jira software on Centos 7.

Atlassian applications allow the use of SSL within range of their products, however Atlassian support doesn’t cover configuration of 3rd party software. Although there are many useful articles on Atlassian website on this subject, it is messy and hard to follow just one article from A to Z to especially for Centos 7 environment which doesn’t install latest required Apache web server by default.

There are few different ways to do this I will use Apache web server as reverse proxy server. Apache will serve as https server and Jira will stay on http.

You need to have Jira installed and working to continue with this tutorial. If you haven’t got Jira install you can do so by following my other post here: How to install Jira on Centos7 with postgresql

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How to enable SSL on Confluence (Centos 7)

In this short tutorial i will go through how to enable SSL on Confluence on Centos 7.

Atlassian applications allow the use of SSL within range of their products, however Atlassian support doesn’t cover configuration of 3rd party software. Although there are many useful articles on Atlassian website on this subject, it is messy and hard to follow just one article from A to Z to especially for Centos 7 environment which doesn’t install latest required Apache web server by default.

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How to install Confluence on Centos7 with PostgreSQL

Up until now I always have used Mysql server for Confluence instances. PostgreSQL is Atlassian preferred database for Confluence and their other products. So I will go through installation steps for this configuration. I already have a fresh minimal Centos 7 installation.

Atlassian has a guide for this but it is generic covering all possible combinations and for this specific installation one need to jump between various pages. This post will have all you need to know on how to install Atlassian Confluence on Centos 7 in one place.

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How to install Jira Software on Centos7 with PostgreSQL

Up until now I always have used Mysql server for Jira instances. PostgreSQL is Atlassian preferred database for Jira and other products. So I will go through installing steps for this configuration. I already have a fresh minimal Centos 7 installation.

Atlassian has a guide for this but it is generic covering all possible combinations and for this specific installation one need to jump between various pages. This post will have all you need to know on how to install Atlassian Jira on Centos 7 in one place.

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FirewallD cheat sheet

As of Centos7 the default firewall application has changed from iptables to firewalld. FirewallD provides dynamic filterinc versus static ones in iptables. You can read more about details of the features included at Fedora project page here and or on their official homepage here.

This page will help me to unlearn the iptables and remember the firewalld commands.

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