Bitbucket Server Installation on Linux Centos VM

[Sumedh Mahajan]

After trying to run bin/start-bitbucket.sh ,getting this error

atlassian-bitbucket-7.17.0]# uncaught exception in thread [main]
java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:111)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:178)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:393)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:170)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:161)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:127)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:126)
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

This is exactly what it says it is.  Do not run Bitbucket as root, it is insecure and does not work.

Try running it as the bitbucket user.