Start and Stop Jira applications

How you start and stop your Jira application depends on whether you are running Jira as a Service. 

Windows

When installed as a service...

If you installed Jira as a service, you can Start Jira instance and Stop Jira instance from the Windows Start menu. 

You can't start or stop Jira manually using the start-jira.bat and stop-jira.bat file.

Manually when not installed as a service...

If you didn't install Jira as a service you'll need to start and stop Jira manually.

  • To start Jira run <installation-directory>\bin\start-jira.bat
  • To stop Jira run <installation-directory>\bin\stop-jira.bat

We recommend running Jira with a dedicated user account. To do this, use the runas command to execute start-jira.bat.

> runas /env /user:<DOMAIN>\<jira> start-jira.bat

Where <DOMAIN> is your Windows domain or computer name and <jira> is the name of your dedicated user.

Linux 

When installed as a service...

If you installed Jira as a service, use one of the following commands to start or stop Jira.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/jira start
$ sudo /etc/init.d/jira stop

You can't start or stop Jira manually using the start-jira.sh and stop-jira.sh files.

Manually when not installed as a service...

If you didn't install Jira as a service you'll need to start and stop Jira manually.

  • To start Jira run <installation-directory>\bin\start-jira.sh
  • To stop Jira run <installation-directory>\bin\stop-jira.sh


We recommend running Jira with a dedicated user account:

$ su -u <user>
$ ./start-jira.sh

Where <user> is the name of your dedicated user.

If you're using Ubuntu the command is a little different:

$ sudo su <user>
$ ./start-jira.sh







Last modified on Dec 1, 2023

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