Bitbucket installed as root

[Laura H]

I have a Bitbucket 5.x installation on RHEL7 that was installed by root, and so the process is running as root.  Because of this, elasticsearch will not run.  I tried changing ownership of both the Bitbucket installation and data directories and then restarting the process with the new account by putting the new account name in 'set-bitbucket-user.sh', but that did not work.  What is the correct way to change the Bitbucket ownership from root to another user?

[Alexis Robert]

Hi @Laura H , 

did you create a Bitbucket user too ? You would have to :

1. create a user with "adduser bitbucket"
2. change the directory ownership with "chown -R bitbucket:bitbucket bitbucket_home"
3. modify the bitbucket-user.sh script with the user you create in step 1

This should be anough, let me know if it works

--Alexis