Start and Stop Jira applications

On this page

Still need help?

The Atlassian Community is here for you.

Ask the community

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

Was this helpful?

Yes
No
Provide feedback about this article
Powered by Confluence and Scroll Viewport.