jira stand alone does not start

[michel demey]

Hi,

I just installed jira 4.4.1 and when I try to start it with "start-jira.bat", here is what I get : (note that I have exactly the same result with start_bundled_jre.bat)

I:\JIRA\bin>start-jira

To run JIRA in the foreground, start the server with start-jira.bat /fg

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JIRA Standalone Edition
Version : 4.4.1

And that's all... http://localhost:8080 gives me a failure...

Here is an extract of the environment variables :

CATALINA_HOME=I:\JIRA
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Fichiers communs
COMPUTERNAME=PC-DE-MICHEL
ComSpec=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
CURRENT_DIR=I:\JIRA\bin
EXECUTABLE=I:\JIRA\bin\catalina.bat
HOMEDRIVE=p:
HOMEPATH=\
javaPath=\bin
JAVA_HOME = i:\java\jre6
JAVA_OPTS=-server -Xms256m -Xmx768m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Datlassian.standa
lone=JIRA -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=true -Dmail.m
ime.decodeparameters=true -Xms256m -Xmx768m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Datlass
ian.standalone=JIRA -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=tru
e -Dmail.mime.decodeparameters=true -Xms256m -Xmx768m -Djava.awt.headless=tru
e -Datlassian.standalone=JIRA -Dorg.apache.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_
BUFFER=true -Dmail.mime.decodeparameters=true
JIRA_MAX_PERM_SIZE=256m
JRE_HOME=I:\JIRA\jre
JVM_MAXIMUM_MEMORY=768m
JVM_MINIMUM_MEMORY=256m
JVM_REQUIRED_ARGS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Datlassian.standalone=JIRA -Dorg.apa
che.jasper.runtime.BodyContentImpl.LIMIT_BUFFER=true -Dmail.mime.decodeparameter
s=true

What seems strange is the JRE_HOME, because no jre subdirectory exists in the jira install dir...

Thank you for any help...

[michel demey · Accepted solution]

Hi !

thank you for your help.

I finally deinstalled the jira application, and reinstalled it as a service.

After that, it works...

Michel

[Joe Clark]

It looks like your JAVA_HOME is set to a JRE directory:

JAVA_HOME = i:\java\jre6

JIRA requires a full JDK installation to run; you should set your JAVA_HOME to a JDK dir.

[Karolina]

Hallo,

How it’s right now with newest jira 6.2 in standalone version?

Do I still need additional JRE ?

[Joe Clark]

No, this advice is now outdated. JIRA (and Apache Tomcat) no longer requires a full JDK install.

[Jo-Anne MacLeod]

If you are running a virus program, you should disable it, remove JIRA, and then reinstall it, then reenable virus scanner. I have found, expecially with McAfee that it will block files from being written to the temp directory. It will then return that the program was successfully installed, when in fact it wasn't.

[Remon van G]

If you do "set" on the cmdline or "echo %JRE_HOME%" , what is listed then?

it might be the installer has set the value in your environment variables (My computer , properties, advanced, environment settings) eventhough the jre is not really there.

You should be able to remove that one if its there, and properly define your JAVA_HOME variable o go to your actian java location (the folder aboce the /bin) folder) Put the java folder + the /bin in the list of PATH entries.