Enable SSL on Atlassian Stack

Question

We're trying to enable SSL's on our server that has Confluence, JIRA, and bitbucket installed. Each software is on a separate port. When we try to enable the SSL's the AD authentication as well as all of the JIRA gagets break.

Could you please provide documentation on how to apply a SSL to the software.

Mike Rathwell · Answer

Good call @JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_ I have mine behind an NGINX server (my preference as about 1,936 times easier to get configured right) and it does what you say. Cert changes are simple and quick (only takes seconds to reload the NGINX container when there are new certs rather than bouncing Jira and Confluence). I configured mine with wildcards so that the same config works for .company.com also works for test..company.com so I don't have to make new ones for diffferent operating environments/etc. I also went the route of a parent "snake oil" cert which does tend to hide the applications/services a bit from casual scanning.

JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_ · Answer

Hi,

please think about setting up a reverse proxy (Apache HTTPD or nginx) in front of the application servers (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) & terminate the SSL there.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/proxying-atlassian-server-applications-with-apache-http-server-mod_proxy_http-806032611.html

Advantage:

* SSL setup only once & much easier than handling with certificate key files

* More flexible if you need to move a server to another machine or you need a cold standby

Best

JP

Mike Rathwell · Answer

Hi @Chris Wolford

There isn't a lot to go on in your post but there are rather a lot of things that you need to do to get this going....

* Jira Config for SSL
* Confluence Config for SSL

From these, I suspect you're going to need to add the public key for the AD server to your cacerts file to let Jira/Confluence talk to it via SSL and get responses back...

SSL is always a ton of fun. This article to diagnose SSL connection problems has always been helpful to me as well