So, you think you want to install Jira on EC2? This might not help that much, it’s mostly a note to myself, but hopefully it’s packed full of goodies to help you out.
OK, so first things first.. start up the Linux EBS Image on EC2. If you’re connecting on windows, you need to generate a ppk instead of a pem, and make sure you give putty your autologin name (currently ec2-user, and NOT root, despite what their instructions say).
OK, now you’re connected… You’ll need to install the Sun JDK (Atlassian doesn’t support OpenSDK, and even if they did, it crashes looking for fonts). Go find the linux download (*.rpm.bin), download it (wget +URL), chmod + x, then sudo it to install. This will install the jdk in /usr/java (not /usr/lib/jvm, where openJDK is installed). Make it the default java with: alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre/bin/java 20000
Now download (wget +URL) Jira for Linux, untar the file. Create ‘jira-home’ in your ~ directory, and create the users like the tutorial asks. It’ll take a couple minutes to startup, but eventually everything will come online.