Separate confluence from JIRA

[Johan Johansson]

In a weak moment we decided to be cheap and run JIRA and Confluence on the same Linux box and the same database engine. 

Now, to separate the two (not really for performance issues but for the annoying fact that we have to use two separate http ports for the two) I was looking for some kind of guidance to do this in the correct way.

What I thought to do was to spin up an identical copy of the server and then disable bit by bit on each server, and as a final step, redo the authentication map so that Confluence uses the other servers JIRA User authenticaiton. 

Any better ideas? Thanks,

[Gundlupet Sreenidhi]

I guess one way to approach this would be to take a backup of both JIRA and Confluence. (which you should be doing anyways).

Install new versions of JIRA and Confluence on separate linux machines and then restore the backups onto the new instances. Once you have the backups restored - you will then be able to modify the authentication per your needs.

This way to don't have to worry about losing data or spending a lot of time to figure out what goes where.

Just FYI - we also have a single linux box running both JIRA and Confluence. They are hooked to the same DB engine - pointing to different databases. But we do have them mapped to different ports and DNS lookups.