Category Archives: Atlassian

Installing Jira in AWS EC2 using Error Driven Installation

By | April 25, 2020

So you may have heard of test driven development but have you heard of Error Driven Installation? Let me give you an example. Here I will install Jira in AWS using errors to help guide me. Installing Jira After you have created your EC2 instance and ssh’d in, download Jira. wget https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-software-8.8.0.tar.gz Then extract it via… Read More »

How to wget Atlassian Jira

By | April 20, 2020

Here is the URL required to wget Jira. https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-software-8.8.0.tar.gz Here is the command: > wget https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-software-8.8.0.tar.gz The format should work for all versions going back to 7.0.11. Prior to this the format is slightly different. eg (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/downloads/binary/atlassian-jira-software-7.0.0-jira-7.0.0.tar.gz)    

Where did h1. in Confluence go?

By | September 12, 2018

If you love Confluence shortcuts and use h1. My heading as a shortcut and discovered it no longer works, you are not the only one. It took a bit of searching to find out if “h1 in confluence still work?” The actual search term would be “Confluence Wiki Markup for Headings doesn’t work”. The docs… Read More »

A blank Atlassian confluence nav bar

By | February 3, 2018

If you have logged in and seen a blue navigational bar in Confluence and wondered where did the options to create pages go then you are not the only one. The navigational bar should look like this: One reason is when your license has expired, you still have the ability to log in a view… Read More »

Generating keys for Bitbucket

By | October 18, 2017

If you are getting this error from Bitbucket: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. It means that bitbucket doesn’t have your public key. You need to generate one if you don’t have it or upload it. To generate one follow these instructions here. Next, you want to add this to your… Read More »

JIRA 7.3 is out!

By | January 14, 2017

The new year has just begun and Atlassian has kicked it off with a new release of 7.3! Check out this blog here from Atlassian on the latest version 7.3 to kick of 2017! http://blogs.atlassian.com/2017/01/jira-server-7-3-power-to-the-admins/ Here is a link to the release notes dated 3 January 2017. https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftware/jira-software-7-3-x-release-notes-861181590.html