JIRA 4.0 : Changing JIRA Standalone's port
This page last changed on May 28, 2009 by rosie@atlassian.com.
By default, JIRA Standalone runs on port 8080 (and hence is available at (http://<yourserver>:8080, eg. http://localhost:8080). If the server on which you run JIRA Standalone already has a service claiming port 8080, there will be a conflict, and JIRA will fail to start. You may see errors like this: LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.BindException: Address already in use:8080 This can be fixed by changing JIRA to use another port (eg. 8090). This is done by editing conf\server.xml (eg. in Wordpad). The start of the file looks like: <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" /> Here, change "8005" to "8006", and change "8080" to "8090" (or some other free port — see below). Then restart JIRA (bin\shutdown.bat; bin\startup.bat) and point a browser to http://<yourserver>:8090
Which port number should I choose? If you are not sure which port number to choose, try new numbers one by one, starting with default port numbers and incrementing by one. Keep going until you find an available port number.
A note about firewalls When you choose a port number for JIRA, bear in mind that your firewall may prevent people from connecting to JIRA based on the port number. Organisations with a local network protected by a firewall typically need to consider modifying their firewall configuration whenever they install a web-based application (such as JIRA) that is running on a new port or host. Even personal laptop and desktop machines often come with firewall software installed that necessitates the same sort of change as described above. If JIRA does not need to be accessed from outside the firewall, then no firewall configuration changes will be necessary.
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