Symptoms

User has set up an Apache httpd proxy to present JIRA on port 80 and is on Linux.

Check the your httpd logs for the following error:

[error] (13)Permission denied: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 192.168.1.1:8080 (jira.example.com) failed

Cause

SELinux is blocking httpd from working correctly.

Workaround

Disable SELinux.

Resolution

Run the following command on the server to allow Apache to make outbound connections.

/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1