Starting a local JIRA test instance

Introduction#

For starting a JIRA test instance on a local machine, the Atlassian-SDK is the way to go. This is useful for testing JIRA itself, developing and debugging JIRA plugins. The SDK is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

See the installation guide for the Atlassian SDK. For running the Atlassian SDK properly, the Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8 (JDK) has to be installed - OpendJDK does not work!

Parameters#

| Parameter (short)| Description | | ------ | ------ | ---- | | —version (-v) | Version of the application to run (default: latest version). | | —http-port (-p) | HTTP port for the servlet container. You may need to change this if you already have a process listed for the default port, such as when you want to bring up two instances of JIRA. (default: 2990)| | —context-path | The application context path. You will need to include the leading forward slash. For example, if your application is running at http://localhost:2990/jira then you should enter /jira. To run your application in the root web application context (eg. http://localhost:2990), then you should enter ROOT. (default: /jira)| | —server | Host name of the application server. (default: localhost)| | —product | The application to launch. In this case use ‘jira’. You may also start instances of other Atlassian products (e.g. Confluence)|

Starting a local JIRA test instance

After installing the SDK, atlas-run-standalone starts a JIRA instance with the latest released version.

atlas-run-standalone --product jira

The instance is available https://localhost:2990/jira

The created instance is for testing only. It provides an other directory structure as production installations. It has a license for 10 users.

Customize the local JIRA instance

It is possible to customize the JIRA version, the port or the context path.

atlas-run-standalone --product jira --version 6.0 --http-port 1337 --context-path issues

The JIRA 6 instance is available under https://localhost:1337/issues

There are more parameters that can be set for running atlas-run-standalone. For full list of parameters, visit atlas-run-standalone documentation