Information Technology Reference
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Getting ready
The following things need to be checked before you start with this recipe:
• Download the latest JIRA archive distribution from
https://www.atlassian.com/
software/jira/download
and click on the
All JIRA Download Options
link.
• Make sure your server environment meets JIRA's requirements by visiting the fol-
• Install Java on the system. At the time of writing, JIRA 6 required Java 7. Make
sure you get the latest update for Java, unless it is explicitly stated as unsupported
by JIRA.
• Make sure the
JAVA_HOME
or
JRE_HOME
environment variable is configured.
• Have a database system available, either on the server hosting JIRA or a different
server accessible over the network. For this recipe, we will be using MySQL; if
you are using a different database, change the commands and queries accordingly.
• Download the necessary database driver. For MySQL, you can download it from
