Stash Install on Ubuntu

[Erik Akers]

I'm trying to install Stash on an Ubuntu and since our company uses remote workers we are going to put the server on the internet. For some testing I set up an Ubuntu VM and installed all requirements, GIT, JAVA etc. I also installed apache and tomcat for web servers. After all of that was set up I hit the local IP address of the server to see if I was getting a response and to test that it was online. My thinking was that I could then make the /var/www directory the stash home directory that is required during the install. When I did this, Stash installed correct and I was able to access it from localhost:7990 on the Ubuntu VM I could not get it it by using the IP address of the VM. Now I just got Stash to the setup phase and didn't go through setup when I couldn't get to Stash from the IP. Do I need to go through set up or did I mess up in my process of trying to install Stash into the /var/www directory? I would like to make stash available at stash.ourdomain.com so that our remote resources can use the server as well. Thanks.

[Colin Goudie]

I think you'll confuse people down the track putting stash into /var/www mainly because generally you see static or php websites etc.. in there.

Stash can happily sit whereever, and you should just setup Apache webserver (or nginix) as a ProxyPass to your stash instance. So Apache will server stash.ourdomain.com on port 80 and forward requests to Stash running on it's default port

Details for that setup should be here - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/STASH/Integrating+Stash+with+Apache+HTTP+Server

[Colin Goudie]

Also you don't have to install tomcat since it comes bundled with stash

[Harry Chan]

Hi, if you can access it via localhost but not via the IP address, it sounds like a network / firewall issues? Are ports blocked? Is the public IP routable?

To get it to stash.ourdomain.com you need to add an A record to your DNS and wait for it to resolve.

You don't need Apache, but can have it. It can serve as a reverse proxy if required. If you download the zipped version of Stash, it comes with Tomcat.