start-jira.sh fails

[Nihar Desai]

I am using JIRA CORE trial version on my local machine. JIRA fails to start when I attempt to launch it using start-jira.sh script. Specific error:

16-Dec-2019 17:00:44.506 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]

16-Dec-2019 17:00:44.517 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Failed to start connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-8080]]

org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [Connector[HTTP/1.1-8080]]

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:167)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal(StandardService.java:440)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.startInternal(StandardServer.java:793)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:688)

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:353)

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:493)

Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler start failed

at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.startInternal(Connector.java:1020)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)

... 11 more

Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use

at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)

at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:461)

at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:453)

at java.base/sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:227)

at java.base/sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:80)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:219)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.start(AbstractEndpoint.java:1191)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start(AbstractProtocol.java:591)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.startInternal(Connector.java:1018)

... 12 more

[brbojorque · Accepted solution]

Based on the error it looks like the port 8080 is already in use.

There are two things you can do.

• Kill the current process where the port 8080 is currently utilizing.
• By default Jira uses port 8080, what you can do is change it to another port it can be 8081

I would also suggest that you can put the script in the systemd or initscript so it is easy to monitor and use.

[Nihar Desai]

That worked - thank you!