How do I host JIRA on a public server

Christopher Littlewood

Hello everyone.

I would first like to apologise if the question is a bit dodgy. I am a university student trying to use JIRA for an assignment. I would like to put it on a server I am running at home so that everyone in my group can access it when they need to and complete or start new tasks whenever. I have noticed that just installing the server only installs it locally.

I have been following this tutorial:

Proxying Atlassian server applications with Apache HTTP Server (mod_proxy_http)

I am not sure that is what I am looking for. I still want it so that only I can add users but I want us to be able to access it from our homes or wherever.

Thanks in advance
Chris

RianS

By default a JIRA Server instance can be accessible from off the machine. It's possible that you have a firewall and/or router in the way that can prevent the JIRA instance from being accessed outside your internal network or even from outside the machine.

Generally, you can setup your router to forward the requests to the JIRA Server installation and open up the server's firewall, and then access it using your external IP address. This does open up your internal network somewhat and can put it at risk if the server you are running JIRA isn't secure/patched regularly.