JIRA access on port 80

[Stefan Hoßmann]

i want to access my JIRA installation on Port 80. System: CentOS7 Jira-Version: 7.0.0

I edited the server.xml from

Connector port="8080"
to

Connector port="80"
and set the jira-user into the root-group with

usermod -a -G root jira
But if i want to open the server-url, there is no connection

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
After restarting the service JIRA

There is a logfile-view

08-Nov-2015 16:23:47.076 SEVERE [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-80"]
java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:437)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:429)
at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223)
at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:343)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:730)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:457)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol.init(AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol.java:120)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:960)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:567)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:851)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:576)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:599)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:484)

08-Nov-2015 16:23:47.078 SEVERE [main]org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-80]]
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize component [Connector[HTTP/1.1-80]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:106)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:567)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:851)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:576)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:599)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:484)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:962)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
... 12 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:437)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:429)
at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223)
at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:343)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:730)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:457)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol.init(AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol.java:120)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:960)
... 13 more

Whats wrong?

[Luciano Fagundes]

Stefan,

You can also integrate JIRA with Apache. That way you don't need to start JIRA as a root user and the Apache would act as a reverse proxy responding on port 80 and redirecting the connections to JIRA on port 8080. For more information on this matter please refer our documentation below. Hope it helps! 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/integrating-jira-with-apache-185729645.html

Cheers

L.F

[Jeremy Gaudet]

Port 80 is within the "reserved" port range (up to 1024), and so requires root to bind to.  I have to guess you aren't starting JIRA as the root user.