How to Install JIRA in a hosting service (managed with plesk)?

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I have no idea how to install JIRA in a hosting service. I have installed it sucesfully in a local computer (were I can access directly to C:\ etc). But I want to migrate it to a server administered by others.

The server is shared with several users each of them has a a domain name. The server is managed with Plesk (a control panel software that you use for reselling shared hosting services, and hosting your own domain names and web sites).
They have JAVA, Mysql ... installed and running as services.

It is possible to Install Java Web Applications. You can install Java Web application packages in the Web archive format (WAR). These Java applications are not distributed with Plesk, therefore you should obtain them separately.
To install a Java Web application (from PLESK help guide):

1. From your Home page, go to domain name > Web Applications > Java Applications tab and click Switch On. This will start the Tomcat service, which provides an environment for Java code to run in cooperation with a web server.
2. Click Install New Application.
3. Specify the path to an application package you wish to install (this can be an application package in WAR format saved on your computer's hard drive), or click Browse to navigate to it, then click OK.
Now the application is installed and the respective entry is added to the list of installed Java applications (domain name > Web Applications > Java Applications).

To access the web interface of a Java Web application, do any of the following:

* From your Home page, go to domain name > Web Applications > Java Applications tab, and click a respective hyperlink in the Path column.
* Type the URL in your browser. For example: http://your-domain.com:9080/storefront/.



*Doubt*: the file JIRA 3.13.2 Enterprise - WAR/EAR (ZIP Archive) not seems to be a valid WAR file format (at least for plesk ;-) ). How can I obtain the proper WAR file? (It is available extracting one file of the ZIP archive? Which one?)


Thanks in advance.
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Post by jamarin - online at:
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I'm really not sure about the hosting service, or all the stuff related to that, but I have configured Jira WAR downloads for "distribution" - well, that's what they called it, but what they meant was "the developer (Nic) needs to hand us a large file which we can tell <insert application server> to deploy"

To do this, I (eventually) had a build server where the basic procedure was:
Download WAR version of Jira, and expand it into local directory structure
Get all local customisations from source control (the most important one was entityengine.xml of course) downloaded under edit-webapp
./build.sh ear
Perform testing (with a version pointed at dist-generic)
Give EAR or WAR file to production guys for their implementation

I don't know if that will work for plesk, but I think it's the right basic idea - building a WAR or EAR file to be deployed by someone else?
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Post by broughn2 - online at:
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