Purpose

This article explains how to install Jira as a systemd service in linux. 

Pre-requisites

JIRA is installed and working, but does not automatically start on boot. For example, JIRA is installed via the .zip package rather than the .bin installer, or you have migrated JIRA to a different server,

Solution

• 1. Login to the Jira application server as root user

  2. Create the following systemd unit file for JIRA service as root:

     touch /lib/systemd/system/jira.service
     chmod 664 /lib/systemd/system/jira.service

  3. Edit the systemd unit file as root:

     vi /lib/systemd/system/jira.service

  4. Add the following content into the systemd unit file to define the JIRA service:

     [Unit] 
     Description=Atlassian Jira
     After=network.target
     
     [Service] 
     Type=forking
     User=jira
     LimitNOFILE=20000
     PIDFile=/opt/atlassian/jira/work/catalina.pid
     ExecStart=/opt/atlassian/jira/bin/start-jira.sh
     ExecStop=/opt/atlassian/jira/bin/stop-jira.sh
     
     [Install] 
     WantedBy=multi-user.target 

      The above defined 'jira' user would be the user that is used to run JIRA, change this if you are running JIRA under a different user.

      '/opt/atlassian/jira' would the default JIRA installation path, change this if your JIRA installation path is different.
      Do not run the Jira in the foreground as this will prevent the catalina.out file from being created. 

  5. Enable the service and start it:

     systemctl daemon-reload
     systemctl enable jira.service
     systemctl start jira.service
     systemctl status jira.service