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Setting up SSL
By default, JIRA runs with a standard, nonencrypted HTTP protocol. This is acceptable if
you are running JIRA in a secured environment such as an internal network. However, if
you plan to open up access to JIRA over the Internet, you need to tighten up the security by
encrypting sensitive data, such as the usernames and passwords that are being sent, by en-
abling
HTTP over SSL
(
HTTPS
).
This recipe describes how to install SSL on the JIRA Tomcat application server. If you
have an HTTP web server such as Apache in front of JIRA, you can install the SSL certi-
ficate in the web server instead.
