Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket + Crowd = 1 Windows Server
Asked by Carlos Henriques:

Hi.

I have a Windows Server with JIRA and now I bought Confluence, Bitbucket Server and Crowd.

I've read some docs about the problem of having multiple JIRA apps on the same server, something about single Tomcat containers:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Deploying+Multiple+Atlassian+Applications+in+a+Single+Tomcat+Container>

My question is:

1. Is it possible to have this 4 apps running on the same Windows Sever machine?
2. If so, what do I need to do to achieve this?

I don't know much of Java and Java servers (.Net / IIS guy).

Until know JIRA was very easy to deploy, just install, point to database and it's running for some years.

Now I would like to use the same server to host this 3 more Atlassian apps, but since I'm not a Tomcat expert, I don't know what to do. I thought each Atlassian app was bundled with it's own Tomcat instance and that they ran on different processes.

Can someone please give me some help?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Yes, you can run them all on the same server. The issues you've discovered are all about running them all in the same **container**. Don't run them in the same Tomcat, keep them separate, and run four separate Tomcat processes independently. (It's actually a bit of a pain to get them all into one Tomcat nowadays too. Whereas just running four installations and then four processes is really easy)

comments: author: Carlos Henriques
body: Ok, so If I run Confluence and Bitbucket installation they all will run on their own Tomcat container by default and I don't need to do anything?


author: Phill Fox
body: You will still need to think about what URL/port combination is going to be used for each application but this is a lot simpler than trying to force four applications in to one Tomcat container.


author: Carlos Henriques
body: No problem. Thanks :)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'd also add "monitor it", as those four might generate a lot of load at times. So keep an eye on their resource usage!


author: Michel Pittelkow
body: I use the same combination currently, but I wonder about the %JAVA_HOME% variable. Bitbucket server is using this with the shipped jre. Are there any possible issues or mismatches in components, when setting %JAVA_HOME% to the JDK root folder?


author: Carlos Henriques
body: I have %JAVA_HOME% pointing to JDK root folder and I already have Jira, Crowd and Bitbucket running so far without any problems.I will install Confluence next week.


author: Marcus Draxler
body: I can confirm that the installation process is very straight forward and all applications run I a single Tomcat container by default when you keep a structure like this:

**Instance 1:**

* /opt/atlassian/crowd
* /opt/atlassian/jira
* /opt/atlassian/jira-service
* /opt/atlassian/confluence

After harmonizing the %JAVA_HOME than it works like charm.

**My issue is** now currently the **"Load issue"!**

++**Do you have a suggestion which EC2 Instance I should use?**++

I'm currently running the suggested c3.xlarge instance!

Thank you in advance!


author: Deevin Priya D'souza
body: Hi..Can anyone tell me how to deploy jira and bitbucket in a single container?


Tags: bitbucket

confluence-administration

crowd-administration

jira