Installation options
JIRA comes in two distributions, the standalone and WAR distributions. Fundamentally, there are no differences between them. The major difference is that the standalone distribution comes bundled with Apache Tomcat, an in-memory database, and Java if you use the executable installer version.
As you can see, the standalone distribution comes with everything required to get JIRA installed. As mentioned earlier, the standalone distribution comes in two flavors, an executable installer and a ZIP archive. The executable installer provides a wizard-driven interface that will walk you through the entire installation process. It even comes with a Java installer to save you some time. The ZIP archive flavor contains everything except ...
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