How to remove port numbers from JIRA & Confluence urls

If a customer would like to remove port 8080 or 8090 (or 7990 etc) from the URL, you will need to install mod_proxy.

Assumptions

• You are running Linux (RedHat, CentOS etc)

Step by Step Guide

1. yum install httpd
2. nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/jira.conf (or confluence.conf)
3. Use one of the following snippets
   • JIRA: <VirtualHost *>
ServerName jira.example.comProxyRequests Off
     <Proxy *>
     Order deny,allow
     Allow from all
     </Proxy>

     ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
     ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
     <Location />
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
     </Location>
     </VirtualHost>

   • Confluence: <VirtualHost *>
ServerName confluence.example.comProxyRequests Off
     <Proxy *>
     Order deny,allow
     Allow from all
     </Proxy>

     ProxyPass / http://localhost:8090/
     ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8090/
     <Location />
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
     </Location>
     </VirtualHost>

4. nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
5. 1. AFTER: # Load config files in the "/etc/httpd/conf.d" directory, if any.
IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf
   2. ADD: LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_proxy_http.so
6. systemctl start httpd
7. chkconfig httpd on
8. /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
9. systemctl stop jira
10. cd /opt/atlassian/jira/conf (or confluence/conf)
11. cp server.xml server.xml.bak
12. nano server.xml
    • Add the proxyName and proxyPort at the bottom
    • <Connector port="8080"maxThreads="150"
minSpareThreads="25"
connectionTimeout="20000"enableLookups=”false”
      maxHttpHeaderSize=”8192″
      protocol=”HTTP/1.1″
      useBodyEncodingForURI=”true”
      redirectPort=”8443″
      acceptCount=”100″
      disableUploadTimeout=”true”

      proxyName=”jira.example.com”
      proxyPort=”80″ />

    • <Connector port="8090"maxThreads="150"
minSpareThreads="25"
connectionTimeout="20000"enableLookups=”false”
      maxHttpHeaderSize=”8192″
      protocol=”HTTP/1.1″
      useBodyEncodingForURI=”true”
      redirectPort=”8443″
      acceptCount=”100″
      disableUploadTimeout=”true”

      proxyName=”confluence.example.com”
      proxyPort=”80″ />

13. Save (ctrl + X … Y … Enter)
14. systemctl restart httpd
15. systemctl restart jira