bitbucket reverse proxy setup for SSL

Question

I was able to set up JIRA behind a Apache reverse proxy using SSL. Unfortunately, after reading the bitbucket documentation, it does not use the same server.xml config file. I read the documentation about using bitbucket.properties file, but there was no such file on my ubuntu server after installing. The documentation is not very specific when it refers to /shared. Is this the installation files home, or the data files home? These two are in different folders on my system. To test, I created a shared directory in both of the bitbucket directories and created a bitbucket.properties file. My file has these properties specified:
maxThreads=
minSpareThreads=
connectionTimeout=
enableLookups=
maxHttpHeaderSize=
protocol=
useBodyEncodingForURI=
redirectPort=
acceptCount=
disableUploadTimeout=
proxyName="bitbucket.example.com"
proxyPort="443"
secure="true"
scheme="https"/>
I am using a VirtualHost file to redirect traffic sent to my apache server with subdomain bitbucket.example.com to port 7990 on the local host, where bitbucket is listening. I was able to do this for JIRA, but it's not working for my bitbucket server. What am I missing?

Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Answer

Create the bitbucket.properties file, in the shared folder of your home directory, and add the system properties you need, use the standard format for Java properties files.

Richard_zpl900 · Answer

Thank you for the reference - I will make these changes and see what happens.  Do you know if the properties file should be in the application data directory, or the install directory?  E.g. for me on ubuntu the application data is in /var/atlassian and the application was installed at /opt/atlassian

Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Answer

Hi!

I believe your file should be like

server.port=7990

server.proxy-name=bitbucket.example.com

server.proxy-port=443

reference:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/bitbucket-server-config-properties-776640155.html

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov