Purpose

Sometimes it's necessary to test connectivity to a single application from a single workstation. The methods described in this article should only be used if you need to test connectivity from a single workstation. To bypass a Proxy and SSL, you will need to make sure if there is a non-proxy port configured on Tomcat or you should add a secondary connector to Tomcat that allows for an alternate route of communication to the application.

Solution

For this example, let's say

• JIRA base URL:  https://jira.atlassian.com
• JIRA's internal IP Address: 192.168.1.100
• JIRA is configured with a Proxy

Please follow the steps below to bypass SSL and Proxy:

1. Stop JIRA.
2. Open JIRA Installation Directory/conf/server.xml in a text editor.

3. Verify if the following Connector port exist in the file:
   For JIRA Software version 7.12.3 and above:

   <Connector port="8081"
                      maxThreads="150"
                      minSpareThreads="25"
                      connectionTimeout="20000"
                      enableLookups="false"
                      maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
                      protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                      useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
                      acceptCount="100"
                      disableUploadTimeout="true"
                      relaxedPathChars="[]|" 
                      relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^&#x5c;&#x60;&quot;&lt;&gt;"/>

   
   For JIRA version lower than 7.12.3

   <Connector port="8081"
                      maxThreads="150"
                      minSpareThreads="25"
                      connectionTimeout="20000"
                      enableLookups="false"
                      maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
                      protocol="HTTP/1.1"
                      useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
                      acceptCount="100"
                      disableUploadTimeout="true"/>

   The Connector port might be different, as long as the connector is not configured with SSL or Proxy, then you should be able to bypass the Proxy and SSL. In this case, you should be able to access JIRA with the following URL:  http://192.168.1.100:<connector port>

   Please backup the current server.xml

4. If such Connector port does not exist in the server.xml file, then please add the connector by copy-pasting the above connector to the server.xml . Make sure to use the correct connector syntax (depending on the version of JIRA) and port 8081 is not already in use (simply search for 8081 in your connector and use 'netstat -an' command to verify if nothing else is listening on that port. If the port is already used, please use a different port.

5. Start JIRA.

6. Access JIRA with the following URL:  http://192.168.1.100:8081

   Change the 8081 port to the respective value if you have configured the port differently.

7. Change the base URL to http://192.168.1.100:8081

8. After the test, you should either:

   • Remove the connector port from the server.xml file.

   • Restore the content of the server.xml file from the backup server.xml file.

     Please take note that you will need to restart JIRA for the changes to be committed.