How to connect local computers to a jira server pc ?

Yusuf Can Anar

Hi, 

I have followed this link : https://www.pro-productmanagement.com/software-jira/install-jira-on-windows to achieve installation of JIRA on windows database(my dekstop computer). I have succesfully created a database connected with JIRA software.

I was able to log in with 2 different account in the same desktop pc. However i want to connect my laptop(which is connected to the same local network(my wifi router) to the server through jira app(or any ways of connecting my local database).

What i want to learn is how can i log in as user(not using the server pc) from another laptop in the local network? 

 

Database: PostgreSQL with pgAdmin

Jira Software version 8.3.0 

 

Note: I have also installed jira software as service to my laptop. When go to localhost:8080 i can see the figure 1 and when i click "I'll set it up for myself" figure 2 comes and i fill them as my database created on the other pc. When i test the connection it pops an error.  

Figure 1Figure 2 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There are two parts to this question.

The main one you have explicitly asked is "how do I connect another machine to the server" - there are several ways to do it, but the best option for getting started is simply a browser.  Let's say you have installed Jira on a server called "Charlie" with an ip address of 192.168.1.42, and not customised anything away from the defaults.  Another machine on your network will be able to use that Jira by firing up a browser and entering "http:charlie:8080" as the url.  If you have not got charlie in DNS, then you'll have to use the ip address directly, which would be "http:192.168.1.42:8080"

I always make sure this direct default route is working before I do the rest of the usual setup most people want - moving the url to be part of a site, getting rid of the port 8080 thing and shifting it to https.  (My Jira urls are almost always things like https://someones-website-with-other-things/jira")

However, that's jumping ahead.

Your second question is about connecting the server to a database - you have not completed the setup of Jira yet, so there's no point looking at the url or remote access yet (you could, but you'll get the same results).

It cannot connect to the postgres database you have told it to use.  This could be any number of things, but, in my experience, 5% of the failures I've seen are "our network does not allow traffic on the port postgres is listening on (default 5432)" and the other 95% are down to /etc/postgresql/<version>/main/pg_hba.conf disallowing the connection.

I'd start with a look at the local access to the database, and once that works, look to remote.