JIRA 4.0 : Advanced JIRA configuration with jira-application.properties
This page last changed on Jun 11, 2009 by rosie@atlassian.com.
In JIRA, most commonly accessed configuration items are editable from Administration -> Global Settings -> General Configuration. The default values here are set in the file WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties. In addition, jira-application.properties contains other properties which are not editable from the web interface. Usually these are of little interest to most users, but sometimes you may wish to edit them. A sample jira-application.properties file is available here.
Making changes to jira-application.propertiesThe process of changing this file depends on whether you are running JIRA Standalone (JIRA deployed as an 'open' webapp) or JIRA deployed as a packed '.war' file deployed in an app server. JIRA StandaloneThe file is located in atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties. Edit the file here, and then restart JIRA by running bin\shutdown.bat and bin\startup.bat (or .sh equivalents). JIRA as a webappIf you have downloaded the .WAR/Webapp distribution of JIRA:
See alsoSetting properties and options on startup — for changes like setting available memory, disabling email, enabling Jelly, etc. |
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