Installed JIRA 7.4.2 on a vm with a separate MySQL vm; both on google cloud platform. When clicking on a demo or created project, receive the error 500 screen. After researching, found this link:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/unable-to-browse-any-projects-due-to-500-page-error-608961369.html
Although only difference is that it's a fresh Jira install on Centos7 with no application links yet.
I'm not sure where to look for errors in logs but found the log analyzer with this read out:
ERROR com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: REFERENCES command denied to user
ERROR JIRA throws "Hmm... we couldn't create your project due to an unknown error. Try refreshing the page to start again" when creating a new project
ERROR JIRA Software can become unresponsive on upgrade or install when there are many custom fields due to restoring and locking all fields
Fixed in 7.2.8 Server 32 minutes ago 2 matches, last match on line 98356
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Which directory would have the best logs to review?