How to install Atlassian Jira in CentOS6

• Login as root
• cd  /opt
• Download Jira for linux from http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download
• chmod a+x atlassian-jira.bin
• ./atlassian-JIRA
• 
  I choose express install
  
  Access URL http://ip:8080
  
  /etc/init.d/jira start
  /etc/init.d/jira stop
• Then we have to run the wizard I then created a mysql DB,user and password.
• Give necessary permissions.
  
  CREATE DATABASE jiradb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
  GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,ALTER,INDEX on .* TO ''@'' IDENTIFIED BY '';
  flush privileges;
• Then we need to copy the mysql JDBC driver to jira
• Download the driver from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j
  Untar the package
  cd to that folder
• Copy mysql-connector-java-5.x.x-bin.jar to /opt/jira/lib
• Stop Jira
• Start Jira
  
  Give it as a public site
  Give name of the site
  Admin user details
  Email notification etc.
• You can access the same through url http://localhost:8080