bin and lib folders missing from jira directory after installation

Question

Hi everyone!

I just installed my self-hosted jira, following these instructions:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/installing-jira-applications-on-linux-938846841.html

It seems that it worked, I can start the setup through the web interface on port 8080 but when I want to connect my MySQL database I get the following error: "Could not find driver with class name: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" although I already downloaded it and put the mysql-connector-java-5.1.46-bin.jar into my jira installation folder: /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/lib. I read that it might help to restart jira but I don't have any bin folder which could contain start- or stop-scripts. Also the lib folder did not exist before I created it in order to copy the jar there. The only directories I have at my jira location are: caches  data  export  import  log  plugins  tmp

Did I do anything wrong?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Felix Winterstein · Answer

Oh, I didn't know there were two different directories, thanks a lot, Fabrice!

Fabrice Huart - NSI · Answer

Hi,
If you have installed Jira with defaults installer parameters, the bin directory is in path

/opt/atlassian/jira/bin (also named installation path)

There you will find the scripts.

Normally, by defaults, Jira is also installed has a service so command below should work.

service jira stop

service jira start

Mysql drivers should be moved to /opt/atlassian/jira/lib

Folder /var/atlassian/application-data/jira is only containing Jira data.

Best regards,

Fabrice