Cannot find server.xml and bitbucket.properties

[Baztheman]

Hi, 

I have installed Bitbucket (BB) for the first time by using the .bin package. Seems like a user "atlbitbucket" and /var/atlassian/application-data are being created. Originally, I have created a user "bitbucket" for the initial tar.gz installation but failed and i dont think it is being used anymore.

I am trying to change the default port to 80 and I cannot find server.xml or bitbucket.properties anywhere.

Please help.

Thank you.

Barry

root@bitbucket:~# ls -la /var/atlassian/application-data/bitbucket/shared/

total 28

drwxr-xr-x  6 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 4096 Jun  7 13:36 .

drwxr-xr-x 12 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 4096 Jun 10 11:45 ..

drwxr-xr-x  5 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 4096 Jun  7 13:30 config

drwxr-xr-x  8 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 4096 Jun  7 13:36 data

-rw-r--r--  1 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket   15 Jun  7 13:36 .lock

drwxr-xr-x  3 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 4096 Jun  7 13:30 plugins

drwxr-xr-x  4 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 4096 Jun  7 13:30 search

root@bitbucket:~# ls -la /opt/bitbucket/shared

total 24

drwxrwxr-x  6 bitbucket bitbucket 4096 Jun  7 12:37 .

drwxr-xr-x 14 bitbucket bitbucket 4096 Jun  7 13:30 ..

drwxrwxr-x  5 bitbucket bitbucket 4096 Jun  6 14:41 config

drwxrwxr-x  8 bitbucket bitbucket 4096 Jun  7 12:37 data

drwxrwxr-x  3 bitbucket bitbucket 4096 Jun  6 14:40 plugins

drwxrwxr-x  4 bitbucket bitbucket 4096 Jun  6 14:40 search

root@bitbucket:~# ls -la /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/6.3.2/

total 96

drwxr-xr-x 11 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  .

drwxr-xr-x  3 root         root          4096 Jun  7 13:29  ..

drwxr-xr-x  7 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  app

drwxr-xr-x  2 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  bin

drwxr-xr-x  8 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  elasticsearch

drwxr-xr-x  3 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:30  .install4j

-rw-r--r--  1 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket   127 Jun  5 01:36 'Launch Bitbucket in browser.url'

drwxr-xr-x  3 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  lib

drwxr-xr-x  2 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket 49152 Jun  7 13:29  licenses

drwx------  2 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  logs

-rw-r--r--  1 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  2601 Jun  5 01:36  README.txt

drwx------  2 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  temp

drwx------  2 atlbitbucket atlbitbucket  4096 Jun  7 13:29  work

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting] · Accepted solution]

First off, in order for Bitbucket to bind to port 80, it needs to run as "root" user.  At minimum, you would need to start it as root in order for it to bind.  This is a bad idea, as it becomes a security vulnerability.  If there is a vulnerability with Bitbucket code, it is easy for an attacker to take over the server. This is because Java is running as root, so the attacker has root access by default.  A best practice approach would be to set up a reverse proxy ahead of Bitbucket (this can run on the Bitbucket server too) so that it can run as an unprivileged user (atlbitbucket) and bind to port 7990. The proxy server has the smarts to start as root, bind to port 80 and then spawn children that run as an unprivileged user that handle incoming traffic.  Check the Atlassian docs on how to do this on Apache, Nginx and HAproxy.

[Baztheman]

Dave, thank you for your reply.

I read the doc you mentioned. I might have missed something, it seems like a description rather than instruction like "download this", "run this commands". Is there a step by step instruction on setting up the reverse proxy?

In any case, the BB that I am setting up is for internal use. Is there a simple way that I just make BB run on port 80? I have tried adding port 80 to bitbucket.properties file and then reboot. Having the init.d script, I thought it should start up as root using atlbitbucket user (as instructed in BB installation doc). However, it does not seem to work. Any tips how to make it work?

Thanks.

Barry